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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by eugenekolo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:19PM (#30078201)
The pixel 3 doesn't stop working after support for it runs out. Same as how that 4th gen iPad hasn't received the last 5 major version releases. (It runs iOS 10, we're on 15 now)
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by js2 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:42PM (#30078512)
This was due to the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit. The 5th gen iPad has an A9, the first to support iOS 11 (64-bit only).

The last iOS 10 update is 10.3.4, shipped in July 2019, a bit more than 6.5 years after the release of the 4th gen iPad in Nov 2012.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by gkop on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:30PM (#30080939)
Yup Apple is pretty good here. My daily browser is an iPad Air 2, it's still getting all the iPadOS updates, 7.25 years after its release.
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