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I wonder if iOS5 devices can still log into the apple store.
by eptcyka 5y ago
I wonder if iOS5 devices can still log into the apple store.
- ainiriand 5y agoGood question. Maybe someone here can confirm. Is the app store covering so much ground as not being able to access the Google account? Maps, Gmail, analytics...
- eptcyka 5y agoActually, even though iOS5 was released in 2011, all devices that supported iOS5 were able to update to iOS6. I wonder, how functional an iOS6 device could be today.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoThe original iPad is stuck on 5.1.1 I think.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoFor kicks I pulled out an iOS 5.1.1 device and I was able to sign-in to the App Store and install an old version of an app using my current Apple ID. I'm genuinely surprised it worked.
- dspillett 5y agoNot as direct a question as it may seem: the iPhone 4s (IIRC the first device released with iOS5) could be upgraded as far as iOS9 but many Android devices never saw much by way of upgrades unless you count rooting them to install something manually. Though how well those devices run newer versions of the OS and newer apps is likely a question with many answers (most, but not all, negative).
- virgilp 5y agoThat's typically an argument that "iDevices have more value because you can use them longer than Android". You can't have it both ways - "old android devices" in this context are devices older than iPhone 4s, and iPhone 4s themselves are not very much in use today, so it's that much less likely that Android phones would be. Realistically, very few people will be affected, and the business backlash for Google is going to be 0. BUT, on the other hand, if anybody at all is going to be affected - those are probably some of the poorest and most vulnerable members of the society (which is also why they're going to not have a strong voice). The social cost, if any, will only be known by Google.