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If you bought a top of the range machine for windows 95 and put windows 98 on it, it would have been slow.

oneeyedpigeon 7y ago
Fortunately, you could've just reverted to a previous OS - unfortunately, that's another thing that isn't possible with an Apple phone.
- DevKoala 7y ago
  No you couldn't, I remember this being a PITA. Unless you had done the backups of your data yourself and wiped the installation of the machine, you were screwed. This is the same situation for iOS. https://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-28897.html?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=70818cca5dd3d61f85f0a99c2952e57ecc85a8f4-1581120002-0-AZBn9NNMB0TejSDMOrXrdjtEHO9h5lQNM_rGF97PmVuFdMrkBRFOcT9NS34ysPHqWr-uwJ6eSHyWLFdAyz4MCCPcHvfI4yWGzmk9eZkgEvVn5tCwGjLF-XpwUARmR8zkba78KVWjp9jViRx_fLH7VWZmJFs1o_VX9IX17LS6ptV1a0zW5VC1OS5b55Kxbisd4zFJNHKdL0iXQfXpyo1c-bXXVr4AINM4H-0DmvHtLJnk4g61qb3oK-0QptdAVg2fPDHyehibhdZBbxJcfpluq02T0OAh0KK68-ySK0ZPfkkMp_WJSzqI4wvdCB73Bbh1C0mDW1QkexOc6hBPzPRInsnyBf-8coUDFQ4E2uSz0-Pa7fknBCJeYvD3CYSsE828R6BYCVoFwZOER7WWm13ctgWPY9ZULgTi7VGYgD1dzyTpOTZQ9JEN7tue3RpNNK3SOKA0jSlEZScYLHfYshU1PcEw_tQRY9nmBefXQaOUvD8u https://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2889...
  - toxican 7y ago
    What you're describing is just inconvenient. With iOS you literally cannot downgrade very far at all. For example, they stopped signing everything older than iOS 13.0 when 13.1.1 released. You've got a very narrow window of opportunity to downgrade and the options are few.
jonplackett 7y ago
Pretty sure windows 98 was about the same speed as windows 95. (And this is from someone who still remembers their windows 98 25-digit key by heart!) But regardless, this is not the point. The point is they misled people and let them think it was that the new OS was slow, but it was not! When you replaced the battery the phone became very noticeably faster.
- laumars 7y ago
  > Pretty sure windows 98 was about the same speed as windows 95. A base install of Windows 98 was a hell of a lot slower than a base install of Windows 95. But that was mostly down to the IE4 integration. Once you installed IE4 on Win95 the two platforms were pretty similar.

Fortunately, you could've just reverted to a previous OS - unfortunately, that's another thing that isn't possible with an Apple phone.

DevKoala 7y ago
No you couldn't, I remember this being a PITA. Unless you had done the backups of your data yourself and wiped the installation of the machine, you were screwed. This is the same situation for iOS. https://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-28897.html?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=70818cca5dd3d61f85f0a99c2952e57ecc85a8f4-1581120002-0-AZBn9NNMB0TejSDMOrXrdjtEHO9h5lQNM_rGF97PmVuFdMrkBRFOcT9NS34ysPHqWr-uwJ6eSHyWLFdAyz4MCCPcHvfI4yWGzmk9eZkgEvVn5tCwGjLF-XpwUARmR8zkba78KVWjp9jViRx_fLH7VWZmJFs1o_VX9IX17LS6ptV1a0zW5VC1OS5b55Kxbisd4zFJNHKdL0iXQfXpyo1c-bXXVr4AINM4H-0DmvHtLJnk4g61qb3oK-0QptdAVg2fPDHyehibhdZBbxJcfpluq02T0OAh0KK68-ySK0ZPfkkMp_WJSzqI4wvdCB73Bbh1C0mDW1QkexOc6hBPzPRInsnyBf-8coUDFQ4E2uSz0-Pa7fknBCJeYvD3CYSsE828R6BYCVoFwZOER7WWm13ctgWPY9ZULgTi7VGYgD1dzyTpOTZQ9JEN7tue3RpNNK3SOKA0jSlEZScYLHfYshU1PcEw_tQRY9nmBefXQaOUvD8u https://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2889...
- toxican 7y ago
  What you're describing is just inconvenient. With iOS you literally cannot downgrade very far at all. For example, they stopped signing everything older than iOS 13.0 when 13.1.1 released. You've got a very narrow window of opportunity to downgrade and the options are few.

jonplackett 7y ago

Pretty sure windows 98 was about the same speed as windows 95. (And this is from someone who still remembers their windows 98 25-digit key by heart!) But regardless, this is not the point. The point is they misled people and let them think it was that the new OS was slow, but it was not! When you replaced the battery the phone became very noticeably faster.

laumars 7y ago
> Pretty sure windows 98 was about the same speed as windows 95. A base install of Windows 98 was a hell of a lot slower than a base install of Windows 95. But that was mostly down to the IE4 integration. Once you installed IE4 on Win95 the two platforms were pretty similar.