Honestly, the CPU differences between models seem pretty underwhelming and shouldn't be limiting anything. The Series 4 appears to have 16 GB memory which was increased to 32 with the Series 5, which could explain this cutoff, as their CPUs were pretty much only different in name, IIRC, and my Series 4 still functions well. The only major jump currently is in the Ultra 2 with 64 GB, so the earlier generations shouldn't be holding anything back CPU wise that isn't exactly as Apple intends. There is no reason the other additional hardware features of the watches themselves should hold back the software, either, so it isn't like Apple would add suddenly more features than they already intended.
In the 1980 and 90's yeah, but these days, more often than not the computers are waiting on the user.
Speculation doesn't always work out well. Dumping gold in the trash is always a fail, though.
It will receive security updates for watchOS 10.
I'm typing this on a 2012 iMac 27" Core i7 22nm that I am intending to replace with a
Interesting? In the tech world that’s ancient. 5 years is a bachelors degree working on a masters. 5 years was BEFORE the pandemic. That just seems like such a long time to me. But I think the longest I’ve gone between upgrades has been 2 years so I’m a weirdo like that
I went 0 to 5 still got the 5. Resisting the urge to buy a 10 and power through to the 11 or 12
Does that mean, when I get battery service, they will ship me the next most recent Apple Watch??
Yeah I really don't know anyone that updates there stuff at that clip other than their phones, and even that is getting rarer for me to see nowadays. 5 years for a watch that cost $400+ is nuts. I suspect since the watch has matured since S4, S5, that the generations after will last 6-7 years of OS updates like Macs, iPads, iPhones, etc going forward but of course thats up to Apple if they want to obsolete things prematurely.
I always say I want to keep my watch for as long as possible. Then a new one comes out and I find some reason to buy it. I need an intervention.
Naw I know people that used the S3 for 6+ years just fine until the battery went on that.
A five year lifespan for a tech gadget should be the minimum if we hope to do anything to slow climate change. You could get way more out of our devices if you could repair them for longer. Reality has a way of biting you on the ass if you don’t keep your eyes up.
The newly elected us president thinks climate change is a Chinese made hoax. Climate change wasn’t even a topic during the elections. People are more wasteful than ever despite people trying to sound the alarm for decades.
