For example in mid 2017 it was still officially sold by Apple in India (source: https://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/05/apple-iphone-5s-iphone-s...).
well in that case many cheap android phones/tablets would have negative support periods, considering they don't release any updates at all.
The support for MacBooks is actually great. Certain Late 2013 and Mid 2014 Retina MacBook Pros, while considered vintage, will be receiving the Big Sur update[2].
1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 2. https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/ (at the bottom of the page)
Only upside is the thing is built in such a way that it has barely taken any damage from the years of abuse I put it through.
I'm likely getting an iPhone 12 Pro Max very soon and will continue to only use the iPhone 5S I've had since 2013 as a backup.
We'd be better off with a more neutral title, like "fixing severe vulnerabilities" or something like that.
It's not really that important, really. It's either being exploited yesterday, or tomorrow.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/for-t...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
Variables appear to be size of user base, average disposable income, mean time to patch and number of competing exploits in the market.
The article implies that before it was written that wasn't the case previously.
If a bad actor can derive just $10 on average per phone they attack, then all they need to do is find a way to deploy their $2-3 million exploit to 1 million phones for less than $5 million to make a tidy profit. Given that we are talking about zero-click remote compromises, which means the victim only needs to receive the payload, this means that it is profitable as long as the cost per victim impression is less than $5, a CPM of $5000. With that sort of budget you can embed your attack into an ad and then outbid everybody else by a factor of 10 for placements. You can buy a mailing list and embed your attack as a "payload pixel". If it is a zero-click text message attack then you can buy access to the spam-callers and mass deploy it that way.
These systems are between a factor of 10-100x off of adequate. To care about their relative differences is like debating whether paper mache or tissue paper is better at stopping bullets. One is probably better than the other, but neither provides meaningful protection, so it hardly matters. You need fundamental, qualitative improvements before differences between the solutions provide meaningful effects on outcomes.
[1] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles/
Also, you can go directly to Zerodium's website, where, as of today, they are still paying more for Android exploits than iOS exploits[2].
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/
Well, yes, its better than your average Android vendor. But on the other hand Windows 8 was released 2012 (i.e. about a year before iPhone 5s), and is scheduled to get updates until 2023. That is pretty serious longevity. And supporting handful of Apple devices must be comparatively simpler than supporting the hodgepodge fleet of Windows 8 devices.
Being able to stay secured with the latest patches shouldn’t require one to be forced to get the unwanted memory/resource hogging “features” of newer OS releases.
It's good that users aren't going to risk getting hacked by such vulnerabilities, but its bad that users can no longer uses these exploits to gain administrative control over their property.
The fact that you're even being downvoted for this shows just how far the authoritarian control-freaks have taken over and brainwashed everyone with paranoia to jump right into their jail.
I was going to wait until the software on my pinephone was more mature but that pushed me over the edge to get power management working on my own and make sure it could make phone calls. I think dumping iOS has done a lot for my mental health and I'm glad to have left it.
I guess stress is personal, because this sounds way more stressful than anything I've had to deal with on iOS! And I say that as someone who'd like to get a more open (hardware and software) phone in the future.