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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
There's a few benefits.
- Newer processors tend to be more power efficient despite being faster, helping OEMs achieve longer battery life.
- Where games are concerned, developers can push the graphics of their games further because of the increased horsepower.
- And lastly, the OS gets heavier and more resource intensive, making older phones perform like crap. I had a late version of iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and it was a dog. 6 made it even worse and then I had to give it back when I left my old company.
I look at those numbers though for battery life and I find myself not that impressed by them.
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Apple seems to be going in reverse here. With Android 4.4 KitKat Google made optimization a huge priority for their super cheap smartphone initiative (Android One), so the newest versions of Android actually run better on older hardware. Microsoft did this too with Windows 7 and 8, if you have an old PC or laptop that came with Vista it will actually perform better if you upgrade. Yet every new version of iOS seems to get more bloated, I guess Apple really doesn't care though since they know most of their users will simply buy the new version of the phone