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Apple’s iOS 11 update means iPhone 5 and 5C will no longer receive updates, while some apps and games will be incompatible after switch to 64-bit.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-5-5c-obsolete
In the interest of balance , is this any different to android phones. It being updated to the latest version ?
This has been happening since 2008, nothing new here
That very much depends on how you want to do it. My 2.5yr old Samsung tablet was bought with Android 5 on it. It got Android 6 the day Android 7 came out. I very much doubt Samsung care about the tablet enough to release any new updates so it is therefor now obsolete.
I could install cyanogenmod onto it (and indeed have but rolled back due to...), but then things like Sky Go won't work.
Yes, but i bet you will see a difference on a new machine running the same app as your old samsung ( though the Sammy's are normally well speced and the 'droid app designers seem to aim at getting them running well on the lower speced machines )
I have been selling old " Nook color or Nook HD's " 100 of them , well 110 to be precise as i blagged 10% for them that wouldnt work, though all have been fine ( infact 2 people have had them of me on here, all gone now though folks ) , installing " kitkat " on them and running them as a 'droid tablet
while they are not the fastest, they came with " Nook's version of 'droid " ( it was very trimmed down ) I installed kitkat and its stable, will run online games like " clash of the clans " etc etc but it is fairly slow, it plays Video's in 720, so on a 7" screen its fine
BUT if i install Lollipop or anything since then, they grind to a halt, so we have kitkat that is 3 years old ( ish ) and running on 7 year old machine, cannot moan if you are still getting life out of a 7yr old machine
Phone manufacturers such as Samsung, LG and HTC skin the UI layer of the Android OS, hence there is cost involved when updating older models, and that is the specific reason why they stop updating them, beyond any technical considerations.
I've got an old Nexus 7.2 tablet which still works great for everything.
Apple are slightly different in that they own the software and the hardware, so they control the entire iPhone ecosystem.
Android already rendered them obsolete