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Re:Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat by threeseed on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:34PM (#12339616)
Comments like this are ridiculous. It wasn't a pared down operating system by any definition. Features just weren't available if you didn't have the requisite hardware.
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Re:Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat by datguacdoh on Monday August 22, 2016 @07:40PM (#12340204)
Not everything was hardware related, or at least not obviously hardware related. My friends both really wanted public transit directions in maps and airdrop but neither feature shipped on the 4S. I also seem to remember that predictive Siri (Google Now-ish competitor, don't remember what they called that) didn't make it to the 4S.

So I do commend apple for getting updates to that device for 4 years, but at least in their experience, it made the phone worse and didn't bring all the features that they wanted.

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Re:Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat by mbell on Monday August 22, 2016 @08:18PM (#12340378)
> My friends both really wanted public transit directions in maps and airdrop but neither feature shipped on the 4S. I also seem to remember that predictive Siri (Google Now-ish competitor, don't remember what they called that) didn't make it to the 4S.

As I recall all those features were built only for 64bit CPUs which the 4s/mini didn't have.

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Re:Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat by datguacdoh on Monday August 22, 2016 @08:25PM (#12340411)
Oh I never heard that before, interesting and thanks. Well, at least I did say it wasn't "obviously hardware" ;)
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