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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: If you own an iPhone X or older - you should throw it
 over the next bridge
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:09:58 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> Chris wrote on Wed, 31 Jul 2024 07:15:50 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>> While I understand that you wish to live in the past, most phones sold
>>> today are Android, and most Android phones are Samsung phones, and the new
>>> Samsung phones are supported for seven years and seven releases.
>> 
>> Like I've said, let's see how that pans out. Samsung haven't supported
>> anything for longer than about three years so we have four years to wait to
>> see what caveats or changes they make to that claim. Which is what I
>> suspect they'll do. 
> 
> You clearly don't understand that all common consumer operating systems
> except those from Apple are supported in independent layers

What does that mean (to you)? I already explained to you the different
support models of several more OSes. 

> some of which
> are fully supported forever (in that there is no EOL date).

Lol. 

> By way of stark contrast, when iOS 18 ships, the entire iOS monolith dies.
> Meaning you should throw an iPhone X & older phone over the next bridge.
> 
>    iPhone X support === Windows XP support

Returns:
  false

>>> Apple is on record for five years.
>> 
>> Plus a history for the last 10 years of supporting all their phones for
>> five years or more.
> 
> There is no difference between Windows XP & the iPhone X when iOS 18 ships.

I worry if you genuinely believe that.