UK regulation requires companies to say how long they plan to provide support.
  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This isn’t new at all. Apple has been consistent with long term updates for a while.

    iPhones have been getting at least 5 major annual updates sense the iPhone 4. The average is 6 updates.

    If anything, it gets to a point where the old hardware can barley handle the newer OS.

    This is the equivalent of them promising to be called Apple in 5 years - it changes absolutly nothing.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

    Edit: thinking about it, this gives them an excuse to reduce the number of years they support phones. Instead of 6-7, can we now expect that to become only 5 years?

    This could be a huge loss disguised as a win

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      If they wanted to limit support to 5 years, they could’ve done so already. Apple never guarantees any support length, so they’re just committing to the minimum this new UK regulation requires. This is probably nothing more than a formality.

  • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    All in all, Apple had to agree to this in writing to be compliant with PSTI. They’ve already been doing this for a long time.

    This is kind of like asking the Fast and Furious franchise to agree, in writing, to talk about family.

  • barryamelton@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Still low, my lineageos phone is going 8 years and is on latest android (and the device wasn’t new when I bought it).