07-23-2017, 01:35 PM
ViPER1313 Wrote:Except it does matter, because there is no way with the # of models / features that Android manufacturers release that they can maintain any notion of upgradeability or backwards compatibility.
The IPhone 5 released in 2012 still works with IOS 10.3.3 released 3 days back. All apps still run on it.
If you bought a Galaxy S3 in 2012, you are stuck on Android 4.3 unless you go 3rd party ROM. How many apps made today still work with Jelly Bean?
That matters if everyone didn't upgrade their phone every two years. I've never heard a single person I know say they can't do something because they're stuck on an old version. I don't even use a laptop I bought in 2012... and I'm a slow upgrader. Show me US customer sentiment about fragmentation and I might start to think it's an actual thing.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth