In 2015 I was part of a large effort inside Apple to make iOS run better on then-4-year-old iPhones, and although we made solid improvements across the entire system, the result just wasn’t great. And even if we managed to make the base system as smooth as it had been 4 years earlier, the amount of slowdown accumulated across the app ecosystem (and the web!) was simply unfixable at the OS level. You may find this regrettable but it’s reality.

@awesomekling my 11" macbook air from 2015 runs omarchy arch linux distro very nicely. can even run some local on-device models. my main phone is still the iphone 13 mini since it's the perfect size; wish there was something like omarchy for e-waste level handheld tech also

@SubtleGradient @awesomekling For the Mac side of the house — I made an open source version of the Omarchy screensaver that runs natively on macOS x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…