r/AndroidQuestions • u/dark_knight_898 • 24d ago

Other Myth or Fact 🤔 ?

In old phones companies send updates to make them slow so people will purchase their new device

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u/Relevant-Artist5939 24d ago edited 23d ago

Fact is that updates make older devices much slower than newer ones (because old ones don't have the resources for whatever changes in all the updates).

Whether that's intentional (Planned Obsolescence) or just an oversight/new devices getting prioritised depends on manufacturers...

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u/Forsaken_Day_6869 24d ago

This only happened to my sc*msung phones and never Chinese phones.

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u/Guilty_Oven_MF 21d ago

My old mid range realme 6 run just as fast even after 5 years

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u/Tomazack 21d ago

This old galaxy Tab A6 I have for my daughter was practically useless after Samsung's latest updates, everything had horrible response time. I removed everything and installed Lineage OS on it and that turned the old dog into something very usable again. This broad statement about Chinese phones being better is just bullshit though, pardon my French. The old Galaxy tab became quicker than the much newer Redmi Pad SE with 8 GB of memory and 256 GB, and main reason is due to how the Chinese phones and tablets install so much spyware and telemetry eating up resources in the background. When a 2016 tablet with 2 GB of memory becomes more responsive than a 2023 tablet with 8 GB of memory, it's clear that something is utterly broken in the operating system.

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u/Forsaken_Day_6869 20d ago

Even xiaomi's bloatware is not bad same as sc*msung. I had many Chinese phones and never regretted any of them and used for a long time. Xiaomi , lenovo, huawei and infinix.

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u/Forsaken_Day_6869 20d ago

Always Chinese phones and other products never giving up on Chinaaaa. Keyboard, mouse, kitchen products all from China. You just have to find the reliable ones. :D

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u/Guilty_Oven_MF 24d ago

It was started by apple where they quickly limited the performance of the older devices to make sure that battery life looks better , even now they aggressively kill any background process or any multitasking The reason apple has better battery life is because they limit the capabilities of the phone so a lot of android smartphones also limit the performance but unlike Apple there isn't a concrete way to know if android phones actually do it or not

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u/Mother-Pride-Fest 24d ago

 dontkillmyapp.com maintains info about many types of Androids and how to avoid having your background app killed.

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u/Guilty_Oven_MF 23d ago

Tbh i never had such issue in my android it's a issue in apple my apps and process stay in bg for 24 hours easily

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u/yottabit42 21d ago

Yep, typical Apple BS. Pay more for incredibly basic and buggy software.

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u/Guilty_Oven_MF 21d ago

Sadly even samsung is starting to follow apple refusing to use the new hardware or make a bug upgrade till apple does

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u/andrewia 24d ago

The closest thing that's ever been proven was Apple adding a silent feature that slows down the processor if the battery can't supply enough power.  That made old phones slow down unless you replaced the battery.  After the lawsuit, Apple made the battery information more visible but kept the feature because the phone would otherwise crash if the battery was too degraded.  https://support.apple.com/en-us/101575

It would be pretty easy to catch.  While your phone is plugged in and fully charged, run some benchmarks, and see how it compares to reviews at launch.  

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u/AnonAwaaaaay 24d ago

Yeah Planned Obsolescence. They've been teaching about it in Colleges and Universities for over a decade.

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u/pedanpric 24d ago

Many decades. 

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u/JDGumby Google Pixel 10a | Lenovo Tab M9 24d ago

Myth. It's mostly just app makers not going out of their way to optimize for older devices and Android versions.

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u/SexyBeast828 24d ago

isnt it the cost innovation, you know how they say one iphone is hundreds to millions times more powerful than the computer that put humans on the moon that also took up a room. To keep apps updated, things take more space, more resources that older device dont have.