[j1elo]

Unlike Android indeed, when you maintain a perfectly working phone that happens (by accident or force of nature) to live longer than the official lifetime some executives in a remote office had decided to grant it, the web browser cannot be updated any more. Just the single most security sensitive piece of software of any computer. Who would have guessed people were going to complain!

[raw_anon_1111]

The iPhone 5s - released in 2013 - just got an update January 2026.

The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android released in 2019. Even phones that old aren’t getting other security updates.

Is that really the argument you want to make?

[SchemaLoad]

They give occasional security patches for the most critical bugs. They don't do full ios/safari updates. The iphone 5s is on ios 12.

[raw_anon_1111]

And neither does Google. The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android released in 2019. The latest version of iOS supports my iPad released in 2019.