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> No other desktop OS works like that. Both Windows and MacOS sunset support for devices. Admittedly - after much, much more time than phone OSes, though.

10x more. Windows 10 runs on computers that are 20 years old.

You have to remember billions of people don't live in the west, they live in india or africa where they use equipment much longer.

10 - 20 years is a real lifespan for cars and appliances, it is also realistic for electronics (leaving batteries aside).

The pace of improvement for computer hardware is slowing, so this issue will become more relevant




> 10x more. Windows 10 runs on computers that are 20 years old.

1. The last Apple phone that lost OS suppose was the iPhone 6. Apple supported that phone for 7 years.

2. I'm skeptical that Windows 10 would run on many Pentium IV computers. Windows 8 only came out 11 years ago. And I remember a whole lot of computers out there that couldn't run that at the time.



> https://youtu.be/ivrlU73VcHw?t=2110

I feel a bit vidicated by that video. In the beginning, he basically says that he needed to run the rare last variant of the Pentium IV to get it to work and that most Pentium IVs would be impossible to get it to work.

Pretty impressive that it's possible at all, though.


He goes with 2006 65nm Cedar Mill in the end, which granted is the last variant in the Pentium IV family, but it’s still a mainstream part.


And those billions of people are buying $30-$50 phones unsubsidized that are much better than a first gen iPhone .

Should the cellular carriers have never moved past 2G?




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