• Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yea android was the same, those huge changes were the result of an emerging tech that we (the population at large) hadn’t really figured out yet.

    Smartphones are entering maturity so it makes sense to me that changes become smaller and move slower, any given update pushed out affects a billion people.

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      10 months ago

      They can still update the OS without changing the major change number and only update the minor change and patch numbers. I just feel that they update the main number for advertising purposes instead of doing it as a telltale sign of what kind of changes are in the OS.

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        10 months ago

        Selling the newness is definitely part of the marketing. Phone number goes up, ios number goes up, chip number goes up. If you are obsessed with having the newest shit, suddenly you no longer have the newest shit.

        I have wondered if phone companies in general and Apple in particular might move to a two-year cycle. But given the size of Apple and the way some people get their new shit as a status symbol, moving to a 2-year phone update cycle would probably lose them literal billions.

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      10 months ago

      Maybe now we’ll have the choice of phones that last longer, are supported longer.

      Apple has been pretty good about this and generally end support on significant architectural changes, but if the change is a faster processor and new sensor, they ought to be able to support hardware longer without more effort