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Not just security updates and not just flagship products. Plenty of lower end devices on that list like the A series. WhatsApp will also run on Android 5 from
by goosedragons 3y ago
Not just security updates and not just flagship products. Plenty of lower end devices on that list like the A series.
WhatsApp will also run on Android 5 from 2014. The latest version of WhatsApp. It's not the only Android app to do that. Many big popular Android apps only require versions 5 or 6. With iOS you have to be much closer to the latest version of iOS to run anything. A Samsung Galaxy S4 from 2013 can run the latest version of WhatsApp. An iPhone 5S cannot despite all those years of updates.
Security updates are just useful for security updates. A device has to be really old before it's typically dropped.
- nicce 3y agoActually the support for Android 5 just ended: https://www.sammobile.com/news/whatsapp-stop-working-some-galaxy-phones-by-next-month/ https://www.sammobile.com/news/whatsapp-stop-working-some-ga... But WhatsApp maybe was bad example. Banking applications are bigger pain, since they even force users to mobile over web page these days. > With iOS you have to be much closer to the latest version of iOS to run anything. Which does not actually matter, since you have usually the possibility to update to the latest version.
- goosedragons 3y agoI think it actually went from 4.1 to 5.0. Google Play Store lists 5.0 and so does the official WhatsApp website and that change supposedly happened a few weeks ago. https://www.whatsapp.com/android https://www.whatsapp.com/android