I'm curious what you believe the alternative is - "new features magically appear in released versions of an operating system without the software being updated"?

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mathiaspoint 8 days ago | parent [-]

Seems to work fine on Linux unless you stick to kernels that are multiple decades old.

Whether it's technical or social the situation on iOS is clearly inferior.

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duskwuff 8 days ago | parent [-]

You're being disingenuous. There is more to an operating system than a kernel; new features in Linux software frequently require supporting software or libraries to be updated.

	▲	mathiaspoint 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Even the user space updates (outside gnome which most people avoid) don't make breaking changes at nearly the rate you see in iOS.