Apple Reveals Life Expectancy Of iPhone
American multinational technology company, Apple Inc., said on Sunday that the iPhone and Apple watch have a life expectancy of three years, while the AppleTV devices, will be four years.
The Cupertino based company made this revelation, in a recent update to its environmental policy.
This information which was first reported by Forbes.com, explained that the iPhone, Apple Watch and Macbook are expected to last for a mere three years before failing, while the OS X and AppleTV devices will get an extra twelve months to reach the four-year mark.
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“To model customer use, we measure the power consumed by a product while it is running in a simulated scenario,” Apple was quoted as saying.
“Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a mixture of actual and modelled customer-use data. Years of use, which are based on first owners, are assumed to be four years for OS X and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices,” the company added.
This means that after the introduction of a new iPhone device, the smartphone will no longer receive update support beyond a three-year period.
Apple has consistently rolled out new operating system updates to older devices and the hardware offered to replace older units.
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For example, the recently launched iPhone SE, which is designed similar to iPhone 5S, can be upgraded from new iOS 9 to the next three years of iOS updates — something the iPhone 5S would be unable to do. The 5S was released late 2013.
