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0 pointsrealusername2y ago0 comments

> Apple has by far the longest support for older devices in the industry.

Depends if you count community support or not because nobody beats Lineageos at this game.

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I am 100% sure that more 2nd-3rd user iphones are circulating in active use than the lineage os downloads summed together ever. Like, it’s not really a thing for the general populace.

realusernameOP2y ago

Maybe but in the meantime, I can still install Android 12 on a Galaxy S4 and use it everyday whereas the iPhone 5 is now just ewaste.

arepublicadoceu2y ago

Galaxy S4 release date: 2013

iPhone 5s release date: 2013

Last official update from galaxy s4: Android 5.0.1 in 2015 [1]

Last official update to iPhone 5s: iOS 12.5.7 in 2023 [2]

I’m well aware that you’re speaking of custom roms, but insinuating that this is solving ewaste issues is disingenuous at best. No ewaste is fixed by us nerds flashing custom roms through adb incantations in out of support hardware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S4#Updates

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

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