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by Libcat99 908 days ago
If that's the case, how long after the purchase of a new iPhone does your imessage subscription expire?

Of course it does not. The per user cost of delivering imessage is so low, Apple doesn't care about the individual user. In bulk, enough people are buying new iPhones to cover the ongoing cost (and then some).
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Almondsetat 908 days ago
It expires when your iOS version becomes too out of date
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asQuirreL 906 days ago
Sounds like the kind of planned obsolescence that Apple has been [sued for in the past](https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21161271/apple-settlement-...).
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Almondsetat 906 days ago
Why would an application which has features added all the time work on an old, unsupported, underpowered devices?

Whatsapp and Telegram dropped support for Android 4.4 devices, are they emplying planned obsolescence?

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asQuirreL 899 days ago
Well WhatsApp and Telegram are free, so it's hard to make that argument there, but my understanding was that the problematic behaviour was for Apple to make the performance of those devices otherwise worse without disclosing the reasons why, which caused people to upgrade earlier than they otherwise would have.

The analogy would be for WhatsApp to make it take artificially longer to send messages on Android 4.4, which I think people would have a problem with but they have no good reason to that.

I can't speak for Telegram, but in the case of WhatsApp, they decide to deprecate particular SDK versions when the usage of those SDK versions drops below a threshold, and it's against their interests to do otherwise, because they lose market share and they are making a tradeoff between engineering support costs and users.

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