As a point of comparison, Microsoft ships its OS across a variety of manufacturers and largely keeps it maintained across them (give or take some exceptions like enterprise environments & the like).

Even unlocked Android phones purchased independently of carriers have inconsistent lengths of support, so it doesn’t seem to be entirely a result of carriers, so…What happened here?

  • stappern@lemmy.one
    12·
    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.

    • ribboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My 10 year old Thinkpad barely qualifies as “running” windows 10, not Ubuntu for that matter. Haven’t bothered trying 11. I do partly agree with you, especially moving forward. But an iPad mini 2 has 1 gb of ram and 16 gb of space, both rather huge limitations for a mobile OS of today.

      • stappern@lemmy.one
        12·
        1 year ago

        i can run the latest linux kernel on a device with 512mb of ram.

        My 10 year old Thinkpad barely qualifies as “running” windows 10,

        that laptop can run windows 10 just fine.it can run win 11 just fine and its gonna be able to run win 12 just fine.

        • ribboo@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Did a computer bought to run windows 95 run XP? Did a computer bought for 98 run Vista? That’s a more fair comparison, as mobile operating systems are very young. And mobile devices from 10 years ago have hardware that could not really be compared to computers.

          Sure, processors at peak capacity where good. But forcing a 10 year old processor running todays software would drain the battery - that was also in no way comparable to today - to fast. And that is even if you could install the OS, as there is so little device space on many of them. Then you open one app and you’re out of ram potentially causing crashes all over the place, because mobile apps are rarely built for efficiency.

          It would be a horrid experience.

          • stappern@lemmy.one
            11·
            1 year ago

            Did a computer bought to run windows 95 run XP?

            yes

            Did a computer bought for 98 run Vista?

            yes

            shit the brainwash is complete,i guess you are too far gone

            • ribboo@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              XP was based on the NT kernel while 95 was using DOS. You’re just plain wrong. Spec wise it would not have worked.

              And a computer built for 98 sure as hell did not reach the requirements to run Vista. Hell, many XP computers struggled and were not allowed to upgrade.

              You’re just plain wrong.