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I know, but that's really no excuse. I don't have a problem with Apple dropping support for old hardware, but this feels a little forced on a device that's only
by gnaffle 14y ago
I know, but that's really no excuse. I don't have a problem with Apple dropping support for old hardware, but this feels a little forced on a device that's only two years old.
Of course, forced obsolescence is a fact of life with commercial, proprietary products, and of course you're not entitled to software updates apart from bugfixes.
But it's very different world compared to the PC world where companies like Microsoft and other OS vendors have an incentive to stretch compatibility as far back as possible.
As more and more developers drop support for iOS 5, an otherwise perfectly working device becomes less and less valuable, which is a shame. Of course an option is still to jailbreak it.
- simonh 14y agoSo what should they do about the memory limitations on old devices. Just not add more features to the OS, so it still works on the older hardware?
- gnaffle 14y agoNo, they could add features, but leave out those features on older devices just like they have done previously with each new iOS release. Many if not most of the new features in iOS 6 doesn't require more processing power.