Apple hurls out patches for dozens of security holes in iOS, macOS Apple has today released patches addressing roughly four dozen exploitable security vulnerabilities in iOS, macOS, and WatchOS. The iOS 10.3.3 update resolves 47 flaws for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, including multiple remote code execution holes in the WebKit browser engine. Fixes were also posted for the Apple Watch's …
My almost 5 year old Iphone 5 got the upgrade, I know it drops out of support in September with the new IOS 11, but how many other phone makers offer support for such an old device?
And yes you may be able to get custom or 3rd party Roms, but I'm referring to the original maker supporting there products longer than it takes Marketing to think up a new advert campaign for the latest shiny, shiny (I'm looking to you Sony!!)
I did the same and went back to iOS. Whenever an OTA update came out on my old Android phones (rooted) if you clicked on yes to install it bricked the phones and the firmware needed reflashing and restoring (if the backup worked!).
It was at this point you realized that a phone these days isn't a cool piece of kit for tinkering with but a bloody necessity which you can't be without for 3 hours while it reflashes/restores...
My almost 5 year old Iphone 5 got the upgrade, I know it drops out of support in September with the new IOS 11, but how many other phone makers offer support for such an old device?
Try the beta test programme. For some reason they will allow a next iOS version on older hardware (at least, it happened with my kit).
Umm, isn't that going to leave you on a beta version forever, when the official iOS 11.0 doesn't support your phone? If you stick with iOS 10.3.3 Apple will still issue an update for it if there's a major security issue (they do it rarely, but they have done it before) but if you have on iOS 11.0 beta you're SOL.
Plus don't the beta versions have debugging code added, making them run slower than release versions?
All valid points, so one by one:
* on a beta forever: yes, it is possible that my older devices will not load the upcoming iOS 11 betas, in which case I'm no better off than others. At that point I may have to decide to finally refresh that bit of kit. Still, it means they've had a good life, and the way I treat my gear it's still looks good enough to either fetch a good exchange price from Apple, or hand it down to someone who just needs a screen to browse. I have an iPhone 3GS somewhere that has been re-tasked as a remote camera :)
* debugging code makes things slower: not noticeably, although that may be because I'm used to it by now :).
To be honest, I'm actually shocked how often I come across it in the wild. I guess it's because the Breitling connected watches are a tad on the expensive side (think $8000, which will buy you quite a few Apple watches which actually do more).
That said, I think the Breitling watches look a LOT nicer but if I had $8000 spare I'd probably not spend it on a watch :).
Apple Watch (Series 2) is a great product , which I own and use every day.
Perfect for getting latest breaking news headlines, checking train times, fitness tracker, paying stuff with Apple Pay and yes telling the time.
I had a Fitbit Surge before and the Apple Watch is miles better in functionality
Wish it could at least all week battery life but can live with the 2 days I get now. Does charge very quickly though.Once then invent better battery technology then that may happen, not going to happen anytime soon though.
The benefits of Apple eco system is that they can push out all updates to all their supported devices and they get updated.
Google updates Android and the updates appear on practically no devices due to the manufactures not pushing the updates out.
I do also like how now they push all the updates out to all devices at the same time (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Mac), so only spend 1 night doing updates and it is pretty automated anyway.
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