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Subject: Re: Does Apple Store censor critical app ratings?
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 15:36:55 -0000 (UTC)
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Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2024-05-06 01:49, Chris wrote:
> 
>> Which bit? Apple does fully support its phones for 4-5 years which means at
>> least 4 OS upgrades and then some security updates for several years after
>> that.
> 
> iOS 18 rumors point to iPhone 11 (Sept 2019) being supported, so a full 
> 5 years after for the major release plus all the updates that go on for 
> about 6 months or so thereafter.
> 
> Remains to be proven, of course.
> 
> And of course Apple put out security updates for longer than that.
> 
>> 
>> Google has upped its game recently and, I believe, 7 years of support for
>> new pixels. Not sure if that's OS upgrades as well or just security
>> updates.
> 
> As I understand it it is system support - not just security.
> 

I think 5 years is reasonable. Not many people want to keep the same phone
longer than that anyway. Now that Google got to its senses about that, I
might return to Android after I get bored with my iPhone because so far I
don’t really see iOS being superior to Android.