[jstx1]

To be fair to Apple, the 1st gen SE came out in 2016 with a 2015 chip and a 2012/2013 body, supporting it for this long is very impressive. There's still the later generations SE (I'm very happy with my SE2) or the 13 mini.

[CodeyWhizzBang]

I do agree with you that Apple have done well to support this.

But also 2016 is only 6 years ago. It's not just Apple thing, but it really doesn't feel sustainable for us to keep write off our hardware every half a decade.

[skyyler]

I do hope to see these numbers get bigger and bigger as the years go on.

I feel like expecting 6 years of updates out of the iPhone 4 would have been kind of ridiculous!

[ryandrake]

I can install a modern build of Linux on a 20 year old computer and expect it to work. Let's not pretend 6 years is some kind of miracle.

[skyyler]

This is a discussion of vendor updates, not third party / community support.

I'm happy for your old computer running a distro of linux that still supports 32 bit processors, though.

[laserlight]

Distinguishing feature of the original SE is its form factor. Successors are large phones branded as SE, unfortunately. So, they won't make up for the original one.

[newsclues]

Same SoC was used in the HomePod and other later released devices which is why this phone got longer than normal support.

I’m still using my SE, and will continue until it dies