I touched on why it’s important for Android phones to offer longer software support above, but there really are a lot of significant reasons. That means in the long run it can actually be cheaper to be an iPhone owner than an Android fan. So while you might have to spend a lot to buy one, the cost is no higher than the priciest Android phones, and you can rest assured that you won’t feel compelled by software to buy a new handset a couple of years later. IPhones are supported for ages, which goes some way to justifying their prices (Image credit: TechRadar)Īnd that phone isn’t an outlier – Apple consistently supports its handsets for a long time. That’s a phone that launched in 2015 with iOS 9, meaning it will have got six years of OS updates, which is even more than Google is reportedly promising with the Pixel 6 range, and at least three times as much as most Android phones. iOS 15 is landing later this year and it’s coming to all iPhones from the iPhone 6S onwards. If you ask me, we’re well past the point where companies should be getting a free pass on this, especially when there’s already a big example out there of how to do software updates right.Īpple, for all the – sometimes justified – criticisms of its pricing, keeps offering updates to iPhones long after they launch.
Not when other expensive tech like computers and TVs can last way longer.Īnd sure, many smartphones are actually quite cheap these days, but they’re still not exactly sold at pocket money prices, and some such phones will only get one major update if they get any at all. Top-end Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and Sony Xperia 1 III cost upwards of $1,000/£1,000/AU$1,800, so the least I’d expect is that we shouldn’t feel the need to replace them two or three years down the line. The Xperia 1 III is a pricey phone, but there's no guarantee of lengthy support (Image credit: TechRadar)
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