Why iphone 3gs has no update for IOS 7
Why iphone 3gs has no update for IOS 7
Sriram5400 wrote:
The thing is now 3GS is left out when the next version say its iPhone 6 , 6S, 6C ..., then iPhone 4 will face the same sitution which 3GS are facing now and it goes on . Phones are not just for 2yrs 3 yrs if that is the case i would have got Samsung , Sony etc . Why do i prefer Iphone ?
Samsung, Sony and every other company are constantly coming out with new models and dropping older models. Many older Android phones also cannot be updated to newer OS versions, as their manufacturers don't release firmware updates for them. Apple is not unique in that aspect of the business - they are all competing with eachother.
Despite many people's wishes that companies were ultra-altruistic, they are not (and largely because their share holders do not want them to be). They make products to sell them and make profits, and whatever is necessary to do that in an ultra-competitive market is what will be done. The pace of change is not going to slow down, if anything, it is just going to continue to ramp up. And millions of happy share holders, and tens of millions of iPhone customers are constantly demanding more new things, not stable older things.
That said, the iPhone 5c and Apple's move into the trade in program, are attempts to offer better options to people on a tighter budget than others.
But, as with any personal item, you buy what you can afford. Nobody is entitled to the best and the greatest just because others have it.
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bbupdater: SENDING EEP FILE DATA
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bbupdater: >> Sending Block of type StaticEEPClass(0) from EEP file...bbupdater:
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bbupdater: DONE SENDING EEP FILE
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bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 28 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 27 tries left
bbupdater: - Powercycling baseband
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 26 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 25 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 24 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 23 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 22 tries left
bbupdater: - Powercycling baseband
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bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 19 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 18 tries left
bbupdater: - Ping failed, trying again, 17 tries left
bbupdater: !!! bbupdater: [1327245045.724825 : 13.-1]:::
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bbupdater:
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- kBBUReturnTimedOut(8)/16: Pinging timed out
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update_baseband: bbupdater error: Exception at :0:
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0: RamrodErrorDomain/3ec: update_baseband: failed to perform next stage
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unable to convert ramrod error 1004
attempting to dump restore log
writing log file: /mnt1/restore.log
==== end of device restore output ====
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