I wish Android 14 inspired as many app updates as iOS 17 did - 9to5Google - eviltoast
  • danielfgom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What he means is that typically after 5v years your iPhone won’t get a system update. Lets say you’re on iOS 10. Then next year Apple will tell all Devs that their apps may not longer support iOS 10 and below and all apps must use the ios 11 SDK.

    Immediately all those folks stuck on iOS 10 cannot upgrade their apps and eventually they may stop functioning.

    Whereas on the Android Play Store most apps require Android 5 and above. We’re about to get Android 14. That means that an 11 year old Android can still install the very latest apps and games.