Apple's iOS 16 eligibility list confirms Samsung software support parity

[Redaktion]

With the official debut of iOS 16 at WWDC, Apple also revealed the devices eligible for the OS upgrade, with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus surprisingly missing out. That, of course, means Apple and Samsung now have parity of sorts in software update policies.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-s-iOS-16-eligibility-list-confirms-Samsung-software-support-parity.626715.0.html

[Tridents]

I don't get how you can conclude support parity when Apple kept giving security updates to older devices on iOS 12 - 2 years of security updates for the iPhone 5s plus 8 years of support in total.
The same will probably happen with the iPhone 6s.

[TDR]

The iPhone 7 series debuted in 2016 ... and received five major iOS upgrades in total ... the iPhone 6s was released in 2015 and also received iOS 15.5, making for six major upgrades ...

Compared to:

...[Samsung] announced that it would be providing four major OS upgrades and five years of security updates to its devices...

Equals parity? Sure, what's a year or two of major upgrades among friends.

[imo]

how is this parity?? just a couple of brands providing security updates is not same as OS updates. Plus they mostly fail on those promises. it is a shame notebookheck is getting more and more bad articles posted. I used to respect notebookcheck.

[Kells]

The feelings of an apple fan boy has been affected. Samsung does not run iOS and apple does not run Android. Most features u get in iOS os upgrades are features android already has. Hence 4 OS upgrades is good enough for Android and 5years of security updates is okay to actually claim parity with Apple's upgrades. Apple usually requires OS upgrades to fix common issues where as android fixes issues with monthly updates. So yeah, Android OS upgrade of 4years is good enough when compared to the 5years of iOS.