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Do you have stats for how plentiful iPhone 5 users are?

The Apple iPhone 5 was released in 2012. Apple has provided those users with 5 years of updates (assuming September is when they will release the new iPhone and also update the major iOS version number).

5 years is a long time in the mobile handset business... I doubt too many people will be livid about anything.

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You assume everyone purchased the iphone 5 in 2012. The iphone 5c was still selling new in India less than a year ago.

Also new ones still listed for sale direct from Walmart it appears: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-iPhone-5C-8GB-AT-T-Locked/4...

If you purchased a new device and in less than a year support is dropped, yeah you might be livid.

Standard practice in the world of Android phones. To add even more salt to that wound the OS was probably a couple years out of date when you bought it as well.

I keep an eye on David Smith’s published iOS version stats[0] which say around 23% of his users are running a 32bit CPU. This includes iPhone 5/5C and older iPads.

https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

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