Do we want huge changes every few years over minor tweaks and improvements? Like the basics of most phone OS are pretty functional and standard at this stage.
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.
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
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.
Old ios updates were significant. I don’t know when it changed, but now there is hardly a difference in versions.
Sounds like OSX/macOS.
Do we want huge changes every few years over minor tweaks and improvements? Like the basics of most phone OS are pretty functional and standard at this stage.
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.
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
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.