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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by ricardobeat on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:03PM (#16463015)
That comment was regarding the expected lifetime of a device.

Apple is known for supporting their hardware for a looong time. You can for example, upgrade a 5S (2013) to iOS11. That 8/X people are buying can be expected to be fully usable through 2023, whereas for Android that's ~2 years.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by scarface74 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:14PM (#16463076)
Apple just announced discontinuing support for the original AppleTV that they first sold in 2007 so yeah Apple is pretty good with support most of the time.

You can still download older versions of apps from the App Store for iOS back to 4. I recently reset an old first gen iPad and was able to use older versions of Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Spotify, Plex and the entire iWork suits.

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