Comment 2SK1 Re: Outdated Android / iOS Poll

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Outdated Android / iOS Poll (Score: 1)

by dustin@pipedot.org on 2014-09-18 12:29 (#2SJJ)

It would be interesting to see how many people use phones/tablets with outdated android / iOS versions.

As a side note, is that the primary method that these embedded computers get updated? If I'm running Android 4.2, does that guarantee that I'm running a device that has outstanding vulnerabilities?

Re: Outdated Android / iOS Poll (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-18 13:01 (#2SJQ)

How does one update an older mobile iphone to the latest IOS?

Re: Outdated Android / iOS Poll (Score: 2, Informative)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-09-18 18:54 (#2SK1)

Very easily. Unlike Android, Apple has always allowed older iPhones1 to update to the newer iOS versions using the built-in app store update process. When I turned on my phone this morning, it had a notification dialog saying something like "iOS 8 is available. Do you want to update now?"

1 Older models up to a point (3-4 versions back). The original iPhone, for example, doesn't get iOS 8 today like the 4's, 5's, and 6's.

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2014-09-20 02:02 Informative +1 hyper@pipedot.org

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