The outcome of this is likely much worse for Android devices than Apple. I would suggest that Apple have the engineering resources to make newer iOS releases "a

The outcome of this is likely much worse for Android devices than Apple. I would suggest that Apple have the engineering resources to make newer iOS releases "as fast" on older devices if they want to. And maybe you could argue that's a great outcome. But you can be pretty sure most Android OEMs just won't bother to provide any updates at the risk of this. This is of course muddied by the battery-related performance changes, to stop unexpected shutdowns, which were sadly not Apple's finest moment. The fix is good, but not reporting that to the end user originally was probably a mis-step on Apple's part in my view. And ideally that change might have been added before the next major version iOS update which made it more of a conspiracy than it needed to be - though you can understand how that comes about. Ugh.