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Originally Posted by meeera
Can confirm that I just updated an iPhone 6S - seven years old - to iOS 15.6.1 (released this past week). But I couldn't update the iPad 4 (ten years old, 32-bit).
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This brings forth a question: Why are so many updates needed?
It seems like we have a continually series of updates needed. It used to be that you had a program, and maybe one update (see Wordperfect 5.1 which was the only update for years) and that was it. I think that one factor is that smartphones have become so complicated and contain so much software that it leaves holes that must be fixed, holes that wouldn't be there if the phone wasn't so complicated.
I think one of the reasons that some people are returning to simpler phones, like the feature phones, is that they don't have the same requirement for updates and don't contain an excess of features. I have a Cingular Flip IV that has a total of 22 apps, and only seven of them are not related to phone/texting functions (although some are nice to have like YouTube, and a web browser).