[matt_wulfeck]

> iPhones don’t age well On my iPhone 6+, most apps crash on first open. Apps freeze for 5–10 seconds whenever launched or switched to. I lose 3–4%/min on my battery and Apple Support insists that my battery is perfectly healthy. I went through “apps using significant power” and uninstalled most of them.

Not to be too critical of this author, but this whole post is full of personal anecdotes extrapolated onto the half a billion iPhone users worldwide[1]. iPhones actually age quite well, as their resale value proves. And that doesn't even take into account their long-term security updates and patches.

1. https://www.quora.com/How-many-iPhone-users-are-in-the-world...

[dankohn1]

The battery draining fast seems to be a resolvable bug:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl...

[Finnucane]

My iPhone 5 still works fine. Admittedly it’s not loaded with apps. Most of the things he does on his phone I do on my iPad instead.

[fooker]

So, what does your iPhone 5 work fine for?

[tachion]

I would make a bold assumption here: calling, texting? ;)

[Finnucane]

Maps and weather.

[please_choose]

I imagine that one factor into resale value aging well is that the price is already high and Apple has a strong brand, versus the actual quality of the device. But it's hard to tell.

RE: personal anecdotes. Fair feedback, but the post was meant to be based entirely on my own experiences. Agree that a more comprehensive post could be done that includes real world data. Although that data would be challenging to gather.