Comment by seec

I am pretty sure that the whole pitch was that it would make people upgrade because they aren't selling enough iPhones anymore. Realistically the vast majority of people can use an iPhone made after 2020 and not care about "upgrading" almost forever. The incremental upgrades are largely irrelevant for most people, it's just good enough and it's just a phone.

So, they have to make the older phones feel bad to use to give a reason for upgrading because otherwise most won't care to do it.

It's not the first time Apple has done that and it has been their strategy for a while now. The "free" updates are the most bullshit marketing success I have ever seen.