Did you try to clean the speakers with a toothbrush?

This is bullshit because

a) From the past, we know the iPhone 5s and 6, dropped with iOS 13 in 2019, got security updates with the latest one from August this year. While that’s no guarantee that the same will happen to the iPhone 6s and 7, it‘s very likely and they already started releasing updates to those devices after iOS 16 released with iOS 15.7 and 15.7.1. Meanwhile, you portrayed it as if all iPhone 6s and 7 would just have become paperweights the moment iOS 16 was released. Two days ago I saw a person using an iPhone 4. I wonder how she even managed to survive until now if it‘s as bad as you describe.

b) Your repetition of „you can‘t“ doesn’t make your statement any more true (3 times in 4 sentences).

c) Just because an OS is out of security updates doesn’t mean it‘s an security hole that will immediately and definitely be used by any bystander. And what would you tell the billions of Android users whose devices are not on the latest security patch? Would you tell them to immediately throw away their device and get a relatively new Google Pixel or the latest Samsung Galaxy S series because only those get the newest security bulletins right away?

Troll

You think I‘ll read a book first because YOU misused a word? Lol what a pathetic conversation

It still sounds like you‘re confusing „spending“ and „investing“.

Here is the definition for investment I get from Google: „the action or process of investing money for profit.“

No doubt a phone is an extremely useful tool that can improve one‘s life. A phone is more useful to me than 10 $100 bills laying around and me not having a phone. but if you don’t use it to start and run a business, which I don’t think many people do, and just could not do that with any other means you previously had, it‘s just money spent on a fancy communication and entertainment device that will be worthless in 10 years.

On the other hand „investing“ is just the act of putting money into something to get more money, in a return-on-investment kinda way.

„Investmens“ usually appreciate in value, or at least that’s the hope when buying it. A phone (if it‘s not something special like the first iPhone that only sold in low volumes) only surely depreciates in value.

If you‘re already spending more than $1000 for a phone, I‘m sure you can afford the big phone with the big storage if that’s what you actually want.

Who cares about 5G