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by mburns 3985 days ago
Nope. Smartphones get replaced more regularly, and with less compatibility headaches than Desktops.

XP reigned for over a decade. No iOS version will be widely used for nearly that long.

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You could also argue that Safari on desktop is more likely to be updated as well since it is generally accepted that Mac OS X has a higher adoption rate of new versions since:

1. enterprise use of Mac OS X is pretty small, and its generally enterprises that are slow to upgrade OS/browser, etc (albeit for generally valid reasons) 2. OS X upgrades have been free for some time now.