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On 2024-05-06 01:32, Andrew wrote:
> Chris wrote on Mon, 6 May 2024 05:49:31 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>>> And Apple does not abandon you after 2 major OS updates, like Google.
>>>
>>> Is this true?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> It's no longer shocking how ignorant all the Apple religious nutcases are.
> Don't believe a word from these ignorant Apple nutcase religious zealots.
> 
> Chris just spouted complete bullshit.
> Which is easily refuted by the facts.

And yet you present none...

> 
> Not only are these Apple religious nutcase zealots completely ignorant of
> how iOS updates, but they're all so far to the left of the first
> Dunning-Kruger quartile, that they're on Mount Stupid - because of their
> extreme confidence in their utter ignorance.
> 
> I feel sorry for people like Cameo, Chris, Alan Baker, Jolly Roger, et al.,
> because their whole lives they've been told they were stupid - but here -
> on an Apple religious zealot nutcase newsgroup - they can spout bullshit.
> 
> The fact is Apple was forced to admit last year that they never once, in
> their entire history, fully patched more than just one release per
> platform. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/deployment/depc4c80847a/web
> 
> That means only a single iOS release is supported, currently iOS 17.
> And only a single macOS release is fully supported.
> 
> Like every manufacturer, when the bugs are so grievous that people would be
> throwing their iPhones over the next bridge, Apple does sporadic patches.
> 
> But even Apple says if your phone doesn't run iOS 17, it's vulnerable as
> Apple will not and does not and has never fully patched anything more than
> a single release for iOS and a single release for macOS.
> 

But none of that refutes what he said.

Apple supports its phones completely via supporting old iPhones through 
4 or 5  (in my case, SIX) major OS releases.