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monokrome | 10 years ago

Not sure that this is necessarily Apple-specific

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superuser2|10 years ago

In practice, carriers and manufacturers do not tend to release updates for Android phones other than Nexus once the shinier model has come out a few months later.

One of the major selling points of the iPhone is that it will continue to receive full OS updates for 2+ years.

Continuing software upgrades are pretty Apple-specific in the smartphone market, but it's also just as true of Windows and Linux in the desktop space.