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- Published on Thursday, 11 August 2016 02:30
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A -- Apple's largest annual iPhone event is only weeks away. More than 200,000 SumOfUs members have already signed to tell Apple to ditch planned obsolescence. Will you sign the Apple petition today and help reach 250,000 signatures by Monday?
It's no accident that iPhones and iPads get slower with every major software "upgrade".
Tell Apple to ditch planned obsolescence, and respect customers, workers and the planet.
A,
Apple has been sabotaging devices for years with software "upgrades" that slow every iPhone and iPad except the very latest model. It's a strategy called planned obsolescence, and its one of the ways that Apple and other gadget makers are getting so filthy rich while the planet and everyone else pays.
iOS 10 will be released in just a few months time. Anyone with a perfectly functional iPhone or iPad bought two years ago would do well to ignore the prompts to "Install Now". But Apple will be pushing upgrade notices to millions of those customers anyway, because every frustrated user with a sluggish device is another sales prospect.
The iPhone 7 is also expected in September -- but tech journalists are already hyping up the iPhone they expect after that one. It's bananas!
Apple is the most valuable company in the world, and could easily extend the life of older devices. The company simply has to stop aggressively pushing software "upgrades" to devices which will become significantly slower as a result. And "downgrades" need to be possible without computer hacking skills, so iPhone and iPad users can always get back to the way things were before if needed.
Apple plays up its green credentials, but the truth is that Apple only began investing in renewable energy, and phasing out toxic chemicals when public pressure became too strong to ignore. More than 300,000 of us signed a petition in January asking Apple not to ditch the standard headphone jack. And though it looks now like we won't win that one, we can push Apple to stop sabotaging older devices later this year and beyond. We put e-waste back onto the agenda for tech blogs reported rumours about the iPhone 7 -- now let's push Apple to ditch planned obsolescence!
Sign the petition and share it to tell Apple to ditch planned obsolescence.
Thanks for all that you do,
Paul, Eoin and the team at SumOfUs
More information
Apple won't do major iPhone redesigns every 2 years anymoreBusiness Insider. 21 June 2016. Apple brags about its environmental progress, but the truth is it still has work to do
Mashable. 21 March 2016. That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
Tech In Asia. 22 March 2016. Of course Apple is engaging in planned obsolescence
Quartz. 3 October 2013.
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