Getting certification for a nearly three-year-old version of Android doesn't sound that impressive until you realize that it's running on a phone originally released five years ago when it ran Android 5
I guess it is impressive for Android but not impressive for iPhone. The iPhone SE (1st gen) [wikipedia.org] released almost 5 years ago recently got the latest iOS update. But bear in mind, the iPhone SE internals are from iPhone 6S which had been released 6 months earlier.
That's impressive for Apple as well, I'm glad they've turned around. The last time I bought something from them (an iMac) they stopped giving OS updates in less than 3 years.
Apple has always given 5+ years of OS updates on Macs. The iMac DV+ shipped in 2001(MacOS10.0) and got updates until 2007(MacOS10.4).
The iMac DV did have a shorter lifespan than most, but it was released at the tail-end of the G3 era, and was supported through the G4/G5 eras and into the Intel MacOS era. The first Intel Macs shipped with MacOS 10.4. MacOS10.5 dropped support for G3s(requiring a G4 or higher).
The latest supported OS of the iMac G3 [wikipedia.org]was 10.3.9 which was released in 2005. If you could upgrade the processor unofficially it would have been 10.5.8 (2009). So minimum 6 years to almost 10 years worth of OS updates.
That's impressive for Apple as well, I'm glad they've turned around. The last time I bought something from them (an iMac) they stopped giving OS updates in less than 3 years.
Yeah, that stopped when Apple went to Intel and Apple deprecates support only when the OS can't support it anymore. OS X stopped supporting 32-bit UEFI graphics first, then stopped support 32-bit UEFI boot. Then they stopped supporting 32-bit graphics, then 32-bit only chips.
Same goes on iOS these days - the reasons they drop support is
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Getting certification for a nearly three-year-old version of Android doesn't sound that impressive until you realize that it's running on a phone originally released five years ago when it ran Android 5
I guess it is impressive for Android but not impressive for iPhone. The iPhone SE (1st gen) [wikipedia.org] released almost 5 years ago recently got the latest iOS update. But bear in mind, the iPhone SE internals are from iPhone 6S which had been released 6 months earlier.
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That's impressive for Apple as well, I'm glad they've turned around. The last time I bought something from them (an iMac) they stopped giving OS updates in less than 3 years.
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"iMac DV+", with the slot-loading DVD drive and the Motorola G3.
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The iMac DV did have a shorter lifespan than most, but it was released at the tail-end of the G3 era, and was supported through the G4/G5 eras and into the Intel MacOS era. The first Intel Macs shipped with MacOS 10.4. MacOS10.5 dropped support for G3s(requiring a G4 or higher).
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Wrong model, I got mine in '99. It came with OS 8.6 and never got any version of OS X.
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Full bubble iMac, lime green plastic over white, puck mouse and all.
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Wrong model, I got mine in '99. It came with OS 8.6 and never got any version of OS X.
Literally every iMac was able to install OS X. . . I don’t think you are remembering correctly.
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Yeah, that stopped when Apple went to Intel and Apple deprecates support only when the OS can't support it anymore. OS X stopped supporting 32-bit UEFI graphics first, then stopped support 32-bit UEFI boot. Then they stopped supporting 32-bit graphics, then 32-bit only chips.
Same goes on iOS these days - the reasons they drop support is