[edgeform]

Calling them 'essentially bricks' is calling them functionless, which they are not.

The iPhone 5/5c was released nine years ago. I'm just not crying for it. If your app dev isn't updating for iOS 15, you're stuck with the old version anyway. Sorry your decade-old device can't use the latest technology.

[saurik]

Well, I'll claim they are potentially worse than bricks, as they are riddled with remotely exploitable security holes (such as the various iMessage ones that come out every year)... like some kind of dangerous land mine in the shape of a brick.

[endemic]

I wouldn’t mind so much if I could have access to older software that still runs on the device.

[munk-a]

This is a real problem for my device - I essentially can't download any "new" software since the app store only appears to make versions incompatible with the newest OS available - and my device (a 2012 iPad 4 Retina to be precise) refuses to update past iOS 10.3.3