There’s a reason why I have an iPhone 6: when I first got my Phone, it was running iOS 8.0. And I was able to update to iOS 8.0.2, 8.1.x versions, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and just today 8.4.1. Meanwhile, most Android phones don’t update to the newer versions of Android, which can be an issue with resolving security issues.
dear ray,
the circuitous cycle of that demonic word in gadgetry - ‘update’ - is what drove me FROM Apple, because the cycle of ‘update’ runs into the wall of ‘physical circuit restrictions’, i.e., the machine could not hold enough RAM to fully function, anymore.
IIRC, the iphone owner cannot access the RAM slot, to increase the RAM size, therefore, the future of the physical electronic circuitry architecture is already obsolete, making it a necessity to ‘upgrade’ your apple phone to the next level of architecture, and so on, and so on.