LTE/5G is a hardware thing, you can't add it with a software update. Yet another point that it's not the sealed battery which is the problem.

You can't add it with a software update, but you could provide a modular phy (or continue support for older standards).

Not talking about you since I don't know, but a funny thing I noticed, is that people who are very loud about saving the environment are always the ones with the latest iPhone 13 Max/Macbook Pro M1 in their hands one week after it's released.

Notice that you just went from "people don't really want it", to "it's not really feasible", all the way to straight up ad hominem.

It was a side point, because it's always very rich people with iPhone 13 Max which are like "poor people should use 10 year old phones, but not me, I can't be seen on gram with that, I need credibility so I can speak out about the climate"

Modular phones were tried and were a complete market failure. Because they sacrifice thinness, robustness and water proofing.

Older standards are removed because they are not used anymore, so the bandwidth is freed for newer ones.

And "people don't really want it" remains just as true. Just like people didn't want small screens, until even Apple famously yielded.

> Always the very rich people with iPhone 13 Max ....

Funnily enough, I can name numerous people who use iPhone 13 Pros/Pro Maxes, just bought this past year and are certainly making less than median wage.

Part of it is fashion, 'not appearing poor', and they may only know iOS due to a history of using it. So no, the very rich aren't the only ones buying iPhones. The stigma that they are phones for the wealthy should go, just as the idea that Android phones are for the poor.

Many people I know who make well more than three or four times what I do use a variety of Android devices.