XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: walterjones@invalid.nospam   
      
   All common consumer operating systems update in asynchronous layers.   
        *Except for the primitive iOS monolith*   
      
               That's just a basic fact.   
      
   It's a basic fact that takes adult cognitive skills to comprehend...   
      
   candycanearter07  wrote   
      
   >>> So you contend they should support every OS forever, then?   
   >>   
   >> I do.   
   >>   
   >> So should Samsung, Motorola, and everybody else, I make no distinctions.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I think they should at least offer free updates if there's a security   
   > problem.   
      
   Hi candycanearter07,   
      
   I'm going to assume you own adult cognitive skills in my post below.   
      
   I do not know if you own adult cognition - but I know morons like Alan   
   Baker and Carlos and even Steve Scharf & Frank Slootweg don't own it.   
      
   What these morons don't understand is _how_ operating systems update.   
   Android updates, much like Windows does... in asynchronous layers.   
      
   For example, due to Project Treble, the Qualcomm drivers are updated, over   
   the Internet, via the Google Play Store update mechanism, asynchronously.   
      
   Just like Windows drivers are updated completely outside the realm of the   
   operating system support itself - such that the support is essentially   
   forever [1].   
      
   This happens with Android & with Windows - but not with the primitive   
   monolithic slab that iOS is - where those drivers are not updated if the   
   device can't be updated to iOS 17 (i.e., to the latest single iOS release).   
      
   Same with the key apps such as Chrome, GMail, YouTube, etc., all of which   
   are updated in Windows and Android completely asynchronously of the   
   operating system support.   
      
   More importantly, there are 34 core modules of Android (the number grows   
   with every Android release starting with Android 10) which are also updated   
   forever [1] asynchronously (and these are all donated to the AOSP such that   
   the support - were it to ever waver - would _still_ go on by the community.   
      
   Look up Project Mainline (which has changed names over the years).   
      
   All this is how Android updates the operating system in layers.   
      
   It's NOT how the primitive iOS monolith updates - which - again - takes an   
   adult level of cognition to comprehend as iOS updates as a rigid monolith.   
      
   In short, correct understanding of how operating systems update takes an   
   adult set of cognitive skills - simply because only iOS is a monolith.   
      
   The rest of the common consumer operating systems update in asynchronous   
   layers (most of which are supported forever [1]).   
      
   Very few posters to this newsgroup own the adult cognitive skills to   
   understand a single word that I said above. Do you?   
   --   
   [1] Forever here means far longer than the hardware will last but with no   
   EOL date specified such that the support easily outlasts our need for it.   
      
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