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Old June 15th 18, 12:36 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default What exactly is different inside a lens in Macro mode?

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Whisky-dave wrote:


there's also the
problem that it will be obsolete in less than 2 years.


Wow that's quite a long life for a smartphone which gets updated every year
if not more often.


two years is actually very, very short.

good luck getting the latest version of android to run on a 2 year old
device. don't even think about it for something older than 3-4 years.

android oreo has been out nearly a year and as of today, is installed
on less than 6% of devices. nougat, which has been out about two years
is only on about 30% of devices, most of which aren't even 7.1.

meanwhile, ios 12 will run on phones released 6 years ago and will be
*faster* than ios 11, which is currently installed on close to 90% of
devices.

tl;dr - ios devices have a *significantly* longer useful life than
android.