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Android Ice Cream Sandwich
“It gave Android its face, its font, and finally one OS for phones and tablets alike.”
“First of its kind, small but mighty — the chip that taught Apple to build its own brains.”
The Apple A4 was a 32-bit system on a chip designed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung, and it was the very first SoC Apple designed in-house — before it, the first three iPhones ran on Samsung-designed processors. It debuted in the first-generation iPad, then powered the iPhone 4, the fourth-generation iPod Touch, and the second-generation Apple TV. In a very real sense, every Apple silicon chip that followed is o
Its farewell came gently: the iPhone 4, the last device it powered, received its final update with iOS 7.1.2 on June 30, 2014, and was discontinued with iOS 8 that September. The original iPad had bowed out earlier, stuck on iOS 5.1.1 since May 2012, and the fourth-generation iPod Touch got its last update, iOS 6.1.6, on February 21, 2014. Not murdered, just lovingly shown to a well-earned rest.
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“It gave Android its face, its font, and finally one OS for phones and tablets alike.”
“Finnish for door — and for a while, it really was one.”
“The party ended, but we all remember whose set it was.”