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Microsoft provides a version of Windows 10 that works on machines with 512 megabytes of RAM like the iPhone 4 has? Nope. Windows 10 and iOS both require two G
by GeekyBear 6y ago
Microsoft provides a version of Windows 10 that works on machines with 512 megabytes of RAM like the iPhone 4 has?
Nope. Windows 10 and iOS both require two Gigs of RAM at a minimum, although Microsoft's minimum OS requirements have always been regarded as something of a joke in the industry.
- Skunkleton 6y agoYou are nitpicking. Traditional electronics have a much longer support window then even iPhones, which themselves do much better than their competition in this regard.
- GeekyBear 6y agoTraditional electronics haven't seen large leaps in hardware capabilities on a yearly basis for a very long time. Apple supports iPhones for as long as they have enough resources for the new version of the OS to continue running on them. Google does not. The fact that they only provide half as many years of support at best proves the point.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoYou keep saying "Google" but there is nothing about Android that can't run on the earliest Android devices given driver support in recent kernels, and Google doesn't control the drivers. Meanwhile Apple, like most Android phone makers, don't publish the information needed for third parties to make drivers for their hardware. Which is why you can't install the latest Android on an iPhone 4. And what is Google supposed to do about that? But Apple could do something about it.
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago> Microsoft provides a version of Windows 10 that works on machines with 512 megabytes of RAM like the iPhone 4 has? Linux does. For that matter Android does. Also, machines from 2003 support 16GB of RAM: https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S2885_Thunder%20K8W https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S2885_Thunder%20K8W Whose fault is it that you can't upgrade the memory on the iPhone 4?