Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by djrogers 3839 days ago
>I guess Apple arbitrarily doesn't support them on my older iPhone

It's not arbitrary - it requires a 64 bit CPU (of which Apple has now shipped 3 generations of).

1 comments

Ah, is that the differentiator? I see. Still strikes me as somewhat arbitrary, though - is content blocking such a strenuous task that it requires a 64-bit CPU? Wouldn't using a blocker cause the CPU to do less work in most cases since it doesn't have to download so many ad media files or execute as much JavaScript?

Yeah, I guess it's just time to get a friggin' new phone already, but this one ain't broke yet, ya know?