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A 2018 iPhone X is vastly more powerful than a 2008 iPhone 3G, whereas the performance improvement of laptops slowed dramatically after that point. Take a copy
by mr_toad 8y ago
A 2018 iPhone X is vastly more powerful than a 2008 iPhone 3G, whereas the performance improvement of laptops slowed dramatically after that point.
Take a copy of a standard 2008 version of Ubuntu desktop and try and install it on a 1998 laptop. I doubt it’d run at all, not without ditching the default desktop.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoUm. I was actually going to concede the point, but look at your sibling comment. Apparently I'm not the craziest one in the room (believe me, I'm more surprised than you).
- geezerjay 8y agoYou've missed the point entirely. It's about software support (or lack thereof), not how the computational power progressed through the last decade.
- vbezhenar 8y agoWhat't the point with software support if OS is unusable? I have iPhone 4S and it became unusuable when iOS 7 was released. I never wanted to upgrade, I wanted to downgrade which was impossible via official means. That's my main problem. If developers don't want to develop for old phones, that's their right. But they must not prevent me from installing old software.
- geezerjay 8y ago> What't the point with software support if OS is unusable? That's something for the users to decide. Imposing artificial restrictions to software, including forced obsolescence, is never a good thing.