On: There are over a billion outdated Android devices ...

[mhsdef]

> The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's.

This is a truism and from my experience it rings false. I ran an iPhone 5 for four years without feeling degraded.

FWIW, as background, I'm an ex-overclocking PC enthusiast and I consider myself very sensitive to any sorts of performance lag.

[candiodari → mhsdef]

It's less true on iPhones but even there it starts happening after a few years. On Android, it's terrible.

But yeah, android was a total resource hog when it got started because of Java, and it's gotten worse and worse.

[anamexis → mhsdef]

Side note: "truism" means "A statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting."

[erikbye → anamexis]

Or something that’s very obvious to be self-evidently true.

But, he might have thought of the complaint as so typical it has become a saying, and a truism by argumentum ad populum, but in his eyes false. Besides, most truisms are true only until they are not (a truism example). The Sun is hot. One day it won’t even be (exist).