My 4 year old Ipad is almost obsolete and I can't run most of the apps on it any more. The OS (and hardware) are obsolete.
So, in that respect, I guess MS is better? :)
I’m so low tech I have to keep asking my daughter which iPhone I’ve got.
My wife and Daughter just got their iPhones and I think they’re one step ahead of mine.
I know just enough to get my stuff to do what I want it to - anything else and I call one of the kids over.
But it means they have to keep you upgrading your hardware, buying new hardware, every few years.
I've got some perfectly functional 8 year old Apple hardware, that runs the OLD software just fine. But I can't upgrade the software any more.
It's not in their business interest to allow their latest and greatest software to run on old hardware. They need you to buy new hardware fairly regularly.
Does that make Microsoft "better"? Well, ask their hardware partners... the ones who have been dying in droves.
Why? My daughter is running my hand-me-down four year old iPad without problems. It runs the apps suitable for it and most of the apps on the App Store. My ex-wife was running my SEVEN year old iPhone original model until two months ago with the original battery. . . still going strong! Alternatively, I just installed Apple OSX.9 Mavericks, the latest Mac operating system, on my SEVEN YEAR OLD 24" iMac with no problems. Works faster than it did with the OSX4 Tiger it shipped with. . . and it's running Windows 8.1 as well. It's not obsolete at all.
My original iPad is running fine, no problems at all.
It must depend on which apps you are using.
Not so. My 4-year-old iPad 1 is still being used daily by my wife. It is far from obsolete. Same goes for my iPad 2. MS is definitely worse. One of the reasons I primarily use my Macs and iPads is that I got tired of all the viruses and patch-fixes on my MS-based PCs. I still use Windows XP, both on a desktop and in a Parallels virtual setup on my Mac. When Windows croaks (as it often does), I can simply copy a backup file into place for Parallels. My Mac OSX has never croaked. Neither have my iPads. I'm a former Windows and NT administrator, with a lot of experience fixing Windows (including training at Microsoft). So unless you have had some equivalent training from Apple, then why should anyone listen to you?