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by chc 5672 days ago
Older iPhone models cannot run the current OS anyway.

And manual memory management is not a showstopper, but to say it's "not that complicated and does not add much overhead" is just wrong. It's conceptually simple, but the devil is in the details. I would bet that if you took a poll of all Cocoa programmers who have been working in the field since — well, pick any date you think qualifies as "out of the initial phase" — and ask them how many of their programs have done correct memory management without debugging, you will get an answer of 0.
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rimantas 5672 days ago 

  Older iPhone models cannot run the current OS anyway.
This is true only for the oldest (1st gen). iPhone 3G and 3GS run 4.2 just fine. Sure, some of the most prominent features of iOS 4 are missing on 3G, but it still does not qualify as not running.
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tres 5672 days ago
I don't disagree with the premise that memory management requires more work; however, the tools and utilities that Apple now provides to hunt down memory issues makes it more tedious than difficult.
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