Obviously, the potential is always there for a newer operating system to run more sluggishly on older hardware but this doesn't necessarily need to be the case. IOS 7 performance improved greatly on the IOS 4S as updates came out. There's no reason the same couldn't be true for IOS 8. It just depends on how much effort Apple developers put into performance on the 4S. The 4S is officially supported by IOS 8, so I think the burden is on Apple for it to be a delightful experience.

On 09/16/2014 11:27 AM, Brent Harding wrote:
I wonder how well iOS 8 will run on a 4S? I sometimes wonder if we are
better off leaving these with iOS 7, just because 8 is probably more
designed to take advantage of more resources that the 4S wouldn't have,
making it potentially slower than 7 is now.

    ----- Original Message -----
    *From:* Jonathan Mosen <mailto:[email protected]>
    *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Sent:* Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:16 AM
    *Subject:* Re: my iphone 4ws

    I can tell you unequivocally that Alex will not be on the 4S. Alex
    is only supported on devices with a 64-bit processor.
    Jonathan Mosen
    Mosen Consulting
    Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
    http://Mosen.org

    On 17/09/2014, at 4:15 am, BBS <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Yes, it might be an idea to leave iOS 7 on my 4s, but it's not
    what I want to do. I want the new features of iOS8 on my 4S, I
    want to see if it's really true that Alex won't be supported on
    these phones. Yes, it's been said on here many times that he won't
    work, but I think it's fun to see things for yourself. Also, isn't
    it risky to have XP still on your PC even though Microsoft warned
    people that there won't be anymore security updates to the OS. I
    mean yeah, I'm using XP on this Mac but I have the power to get
    rid of it should anything go wrong with the VM.

    Shawn
    Sent From My White Macbook
    ----- Original Message ----- From: "RobH." <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>>
    To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
    Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 3:00 AM
    Subject: Re: my iphone 4ws


    Might be an idea not to update to 8 on a 4s and get the best out
    of it's
    latter years that way. I remember 6 pretty well killed working
    3gS's despite
    them being notionally supported.

    Like old pC's, leave the Os proportional or contemporary with the
    hardware,
    and they'll continue to work well enough for longer than
    overloading them
    with an Os they can't sustain.
    The WinPC I'm writing on is still XP, and the machine dates back
    to 2005,
    and it still does now what it did then.

    JMO, RobH.

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "BBS" <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>>
    To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
    Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 11:52 PM
    Subject: Re: my iphone 4ws


    I have a 4S too, but it'll probably be its last year seeing as how
    iOS9
    won't probably be supported.

    Shawn
    Sent From My White Macbook
    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Hadder"
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
    To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
    Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 1:56 PM
    Subject: Re: my iphone 4ws


    In my opinion, the 4S was the best iPhone design.

    I currently use a 4 so I'm going to have to upgrade to something
    at this
    point.  But, if I had a 4S, I wouldn't even be thinking about it.

    On Sep 15, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Christopher Hallsworth
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    I have the 4s and others will too. It's a great phone and still
    is. Just
    showing its age grin.

    Christopher Hallsworth
    Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
    www.hadley.edu <http://www.hadley.edu>

    On 11/09/2014 21:30, Stephen G. Hughes wrote:
    Is there any 4s users still out there? Understand the hoopla of the
    new 6 release; just wondered if there any 4s'ers still out there?

    -----Original Message-----
    From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
    On Behalf
    Of BBS
    Sent: September-11-14 1:25 PM
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Re: IOS8!!!

    Hi Krister. Basically what continuity is is you can start
    something like
    writing an email on one device and continue what you were doing on
    another.
    For example, If I started writing this email on my iPhone and I'm
    near my
    Mac, if my Mac's running OS X Yosemite, I can continue this very same
    email
    on there. However, iOS 8 and Yosemite are still in beta so those
    features
    aren't available to us yet. I'm with you though. I can't wait
    until we can
    use continuity because it also lets Mac users use the Mac as a
    blutooth
    speaker for our iPhones so we can make and answer calls.

    Shawn
    Sent From My White Macbook
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Krister Ekstrom" <[email protected]>
    To: <[email protected]>
    Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 5:03 AM
    Subject: Re: IOS8!!!


    And i can't wait to use the Continuity feature even though i don't
    understand how it's supposed to be done or used. Does anyone know
    anything
    about that?
    /Krister

    11 sep 2014 kl. 02:56 skrev Juan Hernandez
    <[email protected]>:

    You get on your knees and pray/bag the apple computer gods that the
    iPhone
    doesn't get the iOS 8 update.

    I am looking forward to iOS 8.  I can't wait to use the hand off
    features
    and apple pay.

    Best,


    -----Original Message-----
    From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
    On Behalf Of Pablo Morales
    Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:43 PM
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: RE: IOS8!!!

    No, anybody is responding my question. If I don't want to update my
    iPhone
    5s, to IOs8. Because I don't want, I don't want to hurt
    feelings here,
    it
    is
    because I don't want, it is not because bugs, ok?
    Now, if I don't want to do it. In case that I want, or I need
    to do a
    restore, of my iPhone. When I press restore, the iTunes
    automatically,,
    start downloading the last update available.
    But I don't want to install it, what can I do to keep the IOs 7
     in my
    computer, and do not download any update to my computer when I
    need to
    do a
    restore?
    Thanks


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