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Re:Harvard Study Shows Apple Slows Down Old iPhones to Sell ... by bobajob23 on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:40AM (#15313152)
My 4 year old Samsung received an update to 7.0 last month, and a security patch the week after. I agree android patching is poor compared to apple, but a lot of fault lies with the phone companies refusing to pass updates onto the end user rather then the company making the phone.
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Re:Harvard Study Shows Apple Slows Down Old iPhones to Sell ... by Spooky23 on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:24PM (#15313555)
Your experience is accurate and makes the point.

Android releases are not generally available at a consistent time. Apple marches software release in lock-step with hardware release.

When you write an article citing a "study" based on a spike of Google searches, the Android based metrics will be more spread out because implementation of the new software is more spread out. A "study" should control for that sort of variance.

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Re:Harvard Study Shows Apple Slows Down Old iPhones to Sell ... by stephenr on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:03PM (#15313350)
You got an android update 13 months after it was released and a month before the next major update will be released by google? You're making my point for me.

Apple users don't have that problem, and they use the same phone companies.

If Samsung agrees to let the networks dictate when updates will be released, that is their fault.

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