electrosoft

I've been an Apple iphone user since launch on AT&T. I may have jumped around with carriers but I pretty much always used iphones most of the time. I went from upgrading yearly to every few years to now 3-4 years. We use a family plan and two of the users only upgrade when the phones no longer qualify for iOS. For example we just upgraded from an iphone 6s plus to an iphone 11 in the pool  last year and an iphone X is still in use atm. My daughter still uses an iphone 11. So right now, we have iphone 14 max, iphone 11 max, iphone 11 and iphone X.

There just isn't any compelling reasons to upgrade outside of aging out of iOS. The last time I had a problem with an iphone in our family plan was an iphone 4s and Apple just swapped it and gave me a brand new one. I don't even get Applecare anymore. Last time I had an Applecare plan was on my iphone 7 Plus I think.

Rock solid workhorses that are supported for 5+ years. This just seems to be the logical conclusion to that. I would be more interested in overall market share across all models actively owned and used.

We're an iphone family with 4 lines in a family plan. We trickle down the iphones as the "bottom" phone ages out. We just retired a 6s plus last October when it finally was no longer eligible for iOS after 7 years of trusty service. It was replaced with my iphone 11 pro max which is now in its 4th year of service along with another iphone 11 in its 4th year and an iphone X in its 6th year of service.

Next phone up for phase out will be the X maybe next year 7 years into service?

I'm sure half of those accounts are for bombarding youtube with "you won" spam.... /s