Big deal. I just installed ubuntu 21.04 on a ten-year-old machine. There is no non-evil reason why the latest OS cannot run on yesterday's hardware.
It actually is a big deal, compared to the support lifespan of Android devices.
The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
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Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#32While Apple are still supporting six-year-old iPhones, it's disappointing that they're dropping support for six-year-old Macs.
Especially when some software vendors drop support of previous versions of macOS. Recently Sketch axed support for macOS Mojave, which was released less than three years ago!
And it is a real problem because a lot of fine functioning computers can't be officially upgraded to newer versions of macOS, rendering them essentially useless.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#33This is why I bought an iPhone 12. I had a Samsung Galaxy S8 before it and I was perfectly happy with it, except for the fact that it had reached the end of its scheduled security updates. The battery life was still good enough for my light usage, it still ran my apps without a hitch, and the OLED screen still looked great, but it had not received a proper software update in over a year and it had just received its f…
Why not just unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM? As you describe it your phone still worked perfectly fine.
Translation: “now I can never use cryptocurrency apps because I compromised my own phone and others will take advantage of that when I least expect it”
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#34It is worth noting that not all iPhones are bought on day 1. 6s was discontinued September 12, 2018 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6S ) and customers may have bought these phones later.
> 6s was discontinued September 12, 2018
Looks like they were still being manufactured and sold in some regions until at least August 2019.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/apples-new-repair-pr...
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#35My first-gen SE (same age as the 6S) is also supported and doing just fine. Second screen, third battery, works great for everything except spending extended idle entertainment time on it, which is why I still use it.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#36While Apple are still supporting six-year-old iPhones, it's disappointing that they're dropping support for six-year-old Macs.
MacOS Monterey seems to support their hardware back to early 2015 / late 2014, according to Wikipedia.
Which Macs that are six years old are being dropped?
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#37This is why I bought an iPhone 12. I had a Samsung Galaxy S8 before it and I was perfectly happy with it, except for the fact that it had reached the end of its scheduled security updates. The battery life was still good enough for my light usage, it still ran my apps without a hitch, and the OLED screen still looked great, but it had not received a proper software update in over a year and it had just received its f…
Why not just unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM? As you describe it your phone still worked perfectly fine.
As a Galaxy S8 user, I absolutely would, but I have the International Edition with a Snapdragon processor (G950U), and the only remaining (safe / reliable) root methods only apply to the models with the Exynos chip.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#38While Apple are still supporting six-year-old iPhones, it's disappointing that they're dropping support for six-year-old Macs.
Especially when some software vendors drop support of previous versions of macOS. Recently Sketch axed support for macOS Mojave, which was released less than three years ago ! And it is a real problem because a lot of fine functioning computers can't be officially upgraded to newer versions of macOS, rendering them essentially useless.
VMware Fusion is the same - version 12, released in September 2020, only supports Catalina and Big Sur.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#39Highlights a much better policy than Google with respect to their Pixel phones. Pixel 2 was released at the end of 2017 and stopped getting updates at the end of 2020. I was kinda pissed, as I really felt no other compelling reason to get a later model phone. I might get a Pixel 6 when it's released later this year because 5G network availability is starting to become a real thing, but at this point I feel like only…
My last Android phone was a Moto X. As I recall, it got precisely one software update from the manufacturer, and within a year it was unsupported altogether. That was coincident with several notable mobile phone vulnerabilities, and not a peep from Motorola. I decided to switch to iPhone just because I didn't want to have to worry about such things any more, because I didn't want to trade out phones every two or three years (especially since Android phones absolutely tank in value), and because I don't tinker with my phone. Took some getting used to the Apple ecosystem, but I was glad to turn my phone back into an appliance.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#40It is worth noting that not all iPhones are bought on day 1. 6s was discontinued September 12, 2018 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6S ) and customers may have bought these phones later.
The non-S iPhone 6 was discontinued at the same time, and did not even get iOS 13 one year later.
The 6S has 2GB of RAM versus the 1GB of the 6, probably the principle differentiator here as otherwise the specs look pretty comparable (6S also has 2 more GPU cores and a faster CPU clock rate which may be other contributing factors).