Comments on: personal experiments with iphone imaging/2022/02/10/personal-experiments-with-iphone-imaging/various and sundry notionsFri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: whbeebe/2022/02/10/personal-experiments-with-iphone-imaging/comment-page-1/#comment-1564Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:45 +0000/?p=7591#comment-1564In reply to wjlonien.

The iPhone 7 Plus was released September 2016, or six years ago. It will still get iOS updates through iOS 16, which is at least another year. That pushes it to seven years. Seven years of software support and regular updates to a smartphone is absolutely unheard of on the Android side. Google of all companies only guarantees three for the Pixel 6, and Samsung, with its S22, is now guaranteeing four.

Then, of course, there’s Microsoft and it’s marketing of Windows 11. I’ve got a small AMD-based computer (Ryzen) that is not even a year old, but is flagged as won’t upgrade to Windows 11. That fact, and the Windows 10 “ads” poking at me caused me to install Linux on it, and I haven’t looked back. In comparison, my mid-2015 MacBook Pro is running the latest macOS. That’s pushing at least seven years on that platform for OS support.

The grand daddy of them all is a Samsung notebook from 2010. I installed Ubuntu on it in late 2013 because I got tired of Windows on it and I’ve been able to keep it running on Ubuntu ever since. That’s almost nine years, and the physical machine is now twelve years and it’s still truckin’ along.

If Linux can support hardware over a decade old in this case, then what is wrong with all the major companies, especially Google with Android?

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]]>By: wjlonien/2022/02/10/personal-experiments-with-iphone-imaging/comment-page-1/#comment-1563Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:02:30 +0000/?p=7591#comment-1563Nice photos Bill :)
I had the iPhone SE 2020 from the company while I was still with them. And that one took great pictures as well, I often preferred them to the ones coming out of our Pixel phones.
As to updates: Google ain’t as good as Apple in that regard, but we’re still on Pixel 4a 5G (my wife), 4a (me), and 3a (our daughter). And I just read that the 3 series will get their last updates now, so that’s some years as well…
Just updated my wife’s computer which was the oldest in the house, but even that one was still working fine, and went to my brother. So next will probably be that Pixel 3a…

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