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This is cherry picking the most long-lasting supported iPhone and comparing it against the least supported Android phone. Google has guaranteed a minimum of 3 y

This is cherry picking the most long-lasting supported iPhone and comparing it against the least supported Android phone. Google has guaranteed a minimum of 3 years support now. Plenty of iPhones had only 3 years of support, and same with Android phones. At least do an apples to apples comparison (pun intended).

Jtsummers 8y ago
> Plenty of iPhones had only 3 years of support, and same with Android phones. At least do an apples to apples comparison (pun intended). That's a bold claim. Only two models were end-of-lifed after less than 3 years. One more after less than 4 (3y, 11m). The rest had at least 4 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone According to this, from the 3GS to the 5C, most had 4 years (or very close) of support. Two models approached 5 years (4y, 10m and 4y, 11m). Everything from the 5S forward is still supported, and the 5S has 4 years and 11 months of support now. If you failed math, you might include the iPhone X in your numbers and its 10 months of support would bring the average down. However, that's 10 months of support so far, it's not end-of-lifed yet. The 5C is an outlier amongst the earlier models, but it makes sense. It was the same hardware as 5 but a different case, and released a year later. So the 1 less year of support is reasonable (if it were supported another year, the 5 would have been as well). For grins: The first 7 iPhone models had an average support period of 47 months. If you include the next 7 models (all still supported) it brings the average down to just shy of 39 months. If you consider that each of those 7 will get another 12 months of support from today, minimum: This time next year (excluding this year's models) they will have received almost 45 months of support, on average.

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This is cherry picking the most long-lasting supported iPhone and comparing it against the least supported Android phone. Google has guaranteed a minimum of 3 y

by overeater 8y ago

Jtsummers 8y ago
> Plenty of iPhones had only 3 years of support, and same with Android phones. At least do an apples to apples comparison (pun intended). That's a bold claim. Only two models were end-of-lifed after less than 3 years. One more after less than 4 (3y, 11m). The rest had at least 4 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone According to this, from the 3GS to the 5C, most had 4 years (or very close) of support. Two models approached 5 years (4y, 10m and 4y, 11m). Everything from the 5S forward is still supported, and the 5S has 4 years and 11 months of support now. If you failed math, you might include the iPhone X in your numbers and its 10 months of support would bring the average down. However, that's 10 months of support so far, it's not end-of-lifed yet. The 5C is an outlier amongst the earlier models, but it makes sense. It was the same hardware as 5 but a different case, and released a year later. So the 1 less year of support is reasonable (if it were supported another year, the 5 would have been as well). For grins: The first 7 iPhone models had an average support period of 47 months. If you include the next 7 models (all still supported) it brings the average down to just shy of 39 months. If you consider that each of those 7 will get another 12 months of support from today, minimum: This time next year (excluding this year's models) they will have received almost 45 months of support, on average.