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Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Good explanation and lines in with why iPhone get years of support as they have full control of hardware and drivers.

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stappern@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
a huge asterisk here. apple cuts off support to perfectly valid devices for greed. since they dont have any hardware limitation. an ipad mini 2 today is a brick basically, because fuck you buy another product bitch.

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- ribboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean an iPad mini 2 would obviously struggle with iOS today due to hardware limitations.
  
  And you’re very much free to use it, problem is app developers do not find it worthwhile their time supporting older devices as so few use them and it impacts what they can and cannot do. Thus it becomes unusable.
  
  But all Apple apps will obviously still work.
  
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  - stappern@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    I mean an iPad mini 2 would obviously struggle with iOS today due to hardware limitations.
    
    NO, it would not.
    
    you can take a 20yo laptop and run WIN 11 and the latest macos and the latest linux kernel.
    
    im sick of this excuse. you have been brainwashed if you REALLY think thats a limitation. it is NOT.
    
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