Why Apple are so keen for us to all upgrade to IOS9

Now the general trick is described here: http://bit.ly/softwarescam

Here's how it will go with IOS9, the operating system that runs iPhones, iPads, iPod touch.

(1) You are invited to upgrade your IOS.

(2) Every time you do, your lovely little device will get slower and slower until you feel you have to buy a new device. If you stuck to the original IOS, you would be fine with that device, pretty much for ever.

(3) If you are able to withstand the small irritation of warnings that you have not yet upgraded, eventually, you will find one of your software products (installed on your device) Pages, Numbers, whatever... Will require you to upgrade to continue to work.... When you upgrade that, you will find that it cannot be used until you upgrade your entire IOS. Once you do that, you are again back to stage "(2)".

"BUT STOP NO Richard; I upgraded my IOS software to IOS9 and it was faster than it was before. QED".
Ah, they've really got you!!  "Non-QED" because all computers (including iPhones) slow down as storage space diminishes and temporary files build up etc.  Therefore a fresh install of your operating system may initially and *temporarily* seem faster, but this won't last.  It would be fun to install IOS6 on a brand new device and see how that zoomed along!!


So if it is not obvious to everyone, the reason they change this software is not to improve the product, but to tempt our "geek-gland" into upgrading and thence making our own perfectly good device obsolete. I think a nice new verb would be "to obseletize" if there is currently no such word already!



I guess it is all legal....
I wonder if some day this will come back to bite them on the backside!

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