I think everyone deserves an opportunity to be able to check their bank balance or to research their city government or just to send photos to their kids. I think if [developers] cater to too small of an audience, you miss out on an opportunity to reach more people and to have more of an impact and have your business be more successful.
Aaron Gustafson plugs devices in to recharge at Chattanooga Open Device Lab, which helps developers test newly developed software that will run on older, out-of-date devices such as the original iPhone.More Info
Donate a deviceIf you have an outdated phone or another older device with a functional wireless signal and an Internet browser, you can donate it through the global Open Device Lab initiative Donate Your Dusty Device. A list of labs and shipping instructions are available at opendevicelab.com/DYDD.
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Book testing timeWant to schedule testing time at the Chattanooga Open Device Lab? Fill out a request form at chadevicelab.org/book-time. You’ll be asked to provide your name, phone number, email address, a request time slot and alternate time slot and which devices you’d like to be made available.
In the digital kingdom, fame and power are fleeting, and it wasn’t long after the iPhone’s 2007 launch that it was supplanted from top of the technological heap by newer and more capable smartphones.
By 2010, original iPhone users could no longer update their phone’s operating system, which meant many newer apps couldn’t be installed and older ones stopped working. Two years later, Apple declared the original iPhone to be officially obsolete, a classification that stripped it of access to technical support from the manufacturer or its sellers.