Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M...
by robomartin on Thursday June 21, 2012 @12:46PM
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There might be a little pro-Apple bias in some of the way these things are reported. We now have millions of iPod touch devices that can't be upgraded to newer versions of iOS. This is also true of older iPhones (3 and below, I believe). Nobody is crying foul over that. Yet. As app developers start, out of necessity and force, dropping support for older versions of iOS things might change.
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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M...
by Retric on Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:23PM
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It's important IMO to consider how long an iOS device can use the latest firmware. Once you cross the 2-3 year barrier most people are looking to upgrade anyway so they don't consider it a big deal vs. not being able to upgrade a 6 week old phone.
EX: iOS 6 comes out this fall and is backward compatible all the way to 3GS phones which came out June 19, 2009, but not 3G which came out July 11, 2008 which they stopped supporting with iOS 4.2.1 on November 22, 2010.
Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M...
by r00fus on Thursday June 21, 2012 @03:14PM
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I have an off-contract 3GS that's working fine as a bulky iPod touch for my kid. The older 2G and iPod Touch from 2008 (ie, 4 years ago) won't support iOS6.
However, you can buy WP7 phones right now that will not be able to run the latest OS when WP8 comes out. If I were selling these things (or Nokia), I'd be pretty frustrated about that.
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