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How often do you upgrade your pads or phones?
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How often do you upgrade your apple-hardware?
- Every new release35 votes
- 1-2 years5.71%
- 3-5 years37.14%
- 5+ years28.57%
- When the old one breaks14.29%
- When the old one cannot recieve updates14.29%
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My first three cellphones (2005-2014) each crawled over the three-year mark. My first iPhone technically lasted four years, but the third year was rough due to “battery gate.”
I’ve been using an iPhone XS with the original battery since November 2018, and it’s still going strong. I’ll see how things go with the next OS but I’m fully optimistic that this phone will last me six or more years. With that said, I would LOVE an iPhone with USB-C so if iOS 17 taxes my device too much it will be an easy upgrade.
I’m in sort of a “tick/tock” cycle between iPad and Mac; I pushed my 2013 rMBP for eight years but it was rough for the last three. I upgraded my iPad Mini 4 in 2019 because it was slower than my laptop; now I’m using an M2 Air and waiting to see how long my iPad Air 3 holds on. Keeping three devices up-to-date frustrates me and I don’t love upgrading hardware to begin with.
With the first iPhones and the first iPads, I started on a two year cycle, when the products were still maturing. There was one iPad upgrade that was quicker than that because the iPad quickly became my primary computing device and they raised the max storage mid-cycle.
These days, though, I’m one a 5-year cycle for both. And I won’t be surprised if I start going even longer on the phone.
For most of my devices, the batteries have held up fine. My first watch’s battery got bad towards the end, but other than that, I’ve had no complaints. The caveat, though, is that I charge my devices nightly and never expect them to last multiple days without a recharge. And my phones would also get charged during my commute back when I had a commute. So I may have lower expectations of battery life than others do.
5+ years for most devices, but I've had my original iPad Pro ever since this larger model was first introduced. The battery drains completely in about 10 minutes if I take it off power, but as long as it remains connected, it's in great shape. And I'm loathe to give it up because of Apple's terrible decision to remove the 1/8" audio jack.
I upgrade my phone about every 4 years. iPads about every 5. However I’m upgrading my current phone (13 pro max) after 2 years because it’s awful and I hate it lol
Phones every two years as I pay for them monthly over 2 years then trade them in to get a new one at less than full price.
I have probably bought either an iPad or MacBook at about the same rate, but don’t trade the old ones in.
I got very good use out of my 2018 ipad Pro, and I replaced it recently because of storage problems more than anything else. The battery had held up fairly well though over 4+ years of EXTEMELY heavy use. My previous 2016 2nd gen ipad was not so good in the battery department, and within a few years its battery life was pathetic, even though it got much less use. My main reason for changing upgrading that one after only 2 years was that, once I got into music making, I really felt I needed a bigger screen. I'm now a 12.9 guy and am never going back to smaller sizes.
Ideally I aim to use a device for about 5 years. I'm still using my android phone about 5 years after buying. Luckily battery replacements for that are dirt cheap, or at least they were in China, because it's a Huawei phone. I've had 2 battery replacements so far, at very low cost and with the battery changed within a matter of minutes or an hour each time.
Anyone changing their devices every year is being extemely environmentally irresponsible in my view. Of course, some sales models encourage that. I bought my phone outright and used a pay as you go plan that cost only about $7 a month. Doing so was much better from a financial perspective than paying for a contract that was set at a high monthly price but included the price of the phone and gave me a lot of shit that I would basically never use, like call time etc
I was just waiting to see who'd make the first dick joke. Should have known it would be a former Viz reader lol
Me, I don't have "upgrade cycles". I add or replace when needed.
Examples of changes that caused "need":
Of all the Apple gear that I have purchased since 2011, only these have gone:
I have stopped using my iPhone 7 Plus (and its associated Apple Watch 2) due to battery failure, but it's still here.
Currently I'm using an iPhone XS (but not its associated Apple Watch 4).
My iPad 2 is merely present.
My iPad 4 has always been dedicated to music apps. It's a bit of an app museum.
I consider four iPads in daily use. The latest is a 2018 model.
I consider all of my four Macs in use, but I'm a tablet person. And not a gamer. (Frugal lifestyle!) ;-)
I'm not sure about the number of Windows devices to be considered "in use". A 2007 notebook is dedicated to music, a 2009 notebook features two vintage apps (and is dual-boot Linux), two 2019 notebooks share "present day" tasks, a Surface Pro and a 2009 tower are dusty.
In my perception, buying devices with better specs (like more storage, more processing power if available) makes them serve longer (with me). However, power consumption really matters to me.
I usually get new devices when the old ones break or becomes more or less un-usable in practice...
...my iPhone 8 should kick another year or so and my iPad Air 2 is mostly un-usable (heat issues) the 11" M1 iPadPro will kick around for a while and I'll give the 2018 MacMini a few more years to kick around just in time when the M4 MacMini's drop...
If the rumored 30" iMac drops I might get that to compensate for my degrading eye-sight
I tend to only upgrade/replace if something breaks/can’t handle new stuff I want to do/can’t be updated/becomes restricting.
Nice pear! 😉 😉
Still rockin an iPhone 4S
New iPad was every three years or so back when I was commuting (and desperate for a mobile music platform), but that will slow down likely as I work from home now and just use it for casual sample/stem fodder that get mixed on desktop.
I have an iPhone 11 which I got on release.
I got a battery replacement from Apple a while back and it's back to original performance and is good enough for me for now. I like the look of the new phones and when I do bite it will predominantly be for the improved cameras. Things like the dynamic island will also be nice to have. I might wait another year or so and get a 15 Pro after the 16 is released if there are any good deals available, which the carriers often offer (I got a pretty good deal on a 13 Mini for my wife last year for example). I will wait for a Titanium Pro -- The stainless steel ones just feel too heavy for comfort tbh.
But yeah, the 11 is still a great device and is working fine for me and I've still got plenty of storage.
The biggest upgrade for the phone is a decent iCloud tier. Life is much easier when you don't have to think too hard about where your files and photos are :-)
My iPad is an Air 4, which is probably my least used Apple device. Since I got an M-Powered ~BMW~ MacBook Pro I don't use it much at all -- I much prefer the Mac for music. And almost everything else to be honest.
But I am intending to use my iPad for the next track I will work on. I'm looking forward to using some of the great iPad only instruments I have and have hardly used for years. And it's going to be so much better using apps like Ruismaker Noir in Logic than it was in my previous iPad "DAW" of choice which was a pain when it came to automation and getting MIDI out of AU sequencers. (Digression over!).
My next iPad purchase will be base model for my kids. They're currently still rocking the iPad Air 2 and it still works perfectly but 1 iPad into 3 kids is becoming ever more problematic!
I might just give them the Air 4 and give up on iPad music making completely!
Every year for iPhones, with the trade in value apple gives you for the Pro versions around launch day it’s only $200 a year to always be on the latest and greatest. That’s ultimately cheaper for me than waiting say 3-4 years to upgrade since older phones plummet in value quickly.
iPads I’ve been averaging every other release lately.
5+ years, mostly "whenever an iOS version comes out that requires a newer device so I need it to continue to be able to update my apps".
I do notice degradation in battery performance obviously, but it's usually too mild to justify swapping out batteries or getting new devices. The worst I ever had was probably on my then 4 years old original iPhone SE, where the capacity had reduced to maybe 70% and sometimes the capacity to provide enough electrical current was degraded enough that the device would just completely switch off suddenly when a significant power draw occured (for example, when launching the camera app).