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Apple to Discontinue Support for iPhone 4 in iOS 8
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So there will be a special version of iOS 7 for the iPhone 4 with universal Airdrop?in fact they've mentioned that it will be available.
So there will be a special version of iOS 7 for the iPhone 4 with universal Airdrop?
No. iOS 7 is so yesterday. Support on the iPhone 4 is done.
My wife used and iPhone 4 all the way until April of this year. She has the 5C now... and she was actually fighting me on the upgrade.
She was happy with the 4 and somehow she said there were never any issues. She mostly just watched Netflix and Hulu on it though besides using it as her alarm clock, email and as a phone.
But looks like we upgraded her right on time!
So there will be a special version of iOS 7 for the iPhone 4 with universal Airdrop?
nop, iPhone 4 is "dead". i thought you were talking about not having Airdrop at all, in any device!
I always lament the loss of support for older hardware ... not everyone is a SPENDTHRIFT as Apple fanboys appear to be.
Well I guess you can always airdrop from iPhone 4 with iOS 7 to iPad 3 with iOS 8 to Mac with Yosemite.nop, iPhone 4 is "dead". i thought you were talking about not having Airdrop at all, in any device!
Not dead yet.
True, it should have gotten iOS 7.1 instead well, I'd say all devices should have gotten iOS 7.1 from the start. iOS 7 wasn't a very nice release for any of the supported devices in my opinion. Especially not below iPad 2 and iPhone 4S.
I am hoping the same thing. Work bought me a phone last fall...then decided to take back work phones...so back to the iPhone 4 and it feels super sluggish and unresponsive most times.
Just being careful NOT to drop it
Has any developer installed Beta 1 on their 4S? Does it cause too many performance issues or anything?
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Why are people saying that so much? Please keep in mind that iOS 8 isn't as big as iOS 7 was. Well, at the design part then. I think the iPhone 4s might work even more fluid after the update. I mean, compare its performance to the iPhone 4 performance. The 4s is able to run iOS 7 quite well, and Apple could have done a lot work to make the experience even better with iOS 8.
Hope I'm right and nog just trying to say things to make it less worse than it actually is. iPhone 4s user right here... :$
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@nathreed: Even if the performance of iOS 8 on the iPhone 4s isn't 100% well compared to iOS 7.1.1, then remember that it's still a beta. After a few beta's we will be able to actually tell whether the performance is well enough or not on it.
I doubt I need iOS8 to make phone calls, get & write sms, a little bit of browsing, listening to music and having an alarm clock - which is pretty much all I do with my iPhone4 anyway. I never even bother updating the few apps I have on that thing because I don't use them anyway.
People seem to forget that, although it looked physically similar, the 4S (with its A5 CPU) was a quantum leap ahead of the 4 in terms of hardware. 4 -> 4S was possibly the biggest leap of any iPhone generation in terms of CPU performance. It won't struggle.
The 4, which was already pretty slow with iOS 7, certainly would.
So no Airdrop between iOS and OSX. Damn it.
Yes, there is.
LINK: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/02/finally-airdrop-works-between-ios-and-mac/
As an answer for those who are waiting on about the performance of iOS 8 on the 4s: I have just been told by somebody using it that the device runs it well for a first beta release. Might get better of course. For now it looks great though.
As an answer for those who are waiting on about the performance of iOS 8 on the 4s: I have just been told by somebody using it that the device runs it well for a first beta release. Might get better of course. For now it looks great though.
I'm glad to hear the 4S still performs well with iOS 8. I have a 5s now, but I kept my 4S which I still use often at home (allowing me to charge my 5s less often). It's my first iPhone and I plan to keep it as part of my "Apple collection" which also includes my first iPod, a 15GB 3rd gen. iPod from 2003 (still worked when I checked it late last year).
To be honest I'm not surprised that it works well since the A5 is also in the original iPad mini which is still for sale. Gotta love that still powerful enough in 2014 A5 CPU. Next year of course...
Yep, there are no Android phones from 2010 that support 4.4 KitKat the last time I checked. Heck, I don't think any of them support Jelly Bean either.
The 4S, iPad 2, iPod touch (5th generation), and iPad mini all have the same amount of RAM, and they all get iOS 8.
The issue with the iPhone 4 wasn't with its RAM, but with its crazy slow CPU and GPU. The iPhone 4 was pretty much just an overclocked iPhone 3GS.
THIS.
Going from one core to two or more is one of the biggest performance boosts computing *in general* has ever seen.
It isn't even solely about having twice the CPU power available. Context-switching (when a CPU core pauses working on one process to work on another) is an expensive operation. It has to happen constantly when more than one process is running at once.
When two processes are running concurrently on a dual core CPU, context switching isn't "cut in half", it goes away completely. This is a big gain above and beyond just doubling the performance.
It's time to retire single-core processing already.