Comment Re:Makes sense. (Score 1) 629
Anyone claiming that the iPhone 4S is supported with iOS 8 hasn't tried it.
I mean, it is "supported." You can install install iOS 8 onto it. I have access to a 4S with iOS 8. (It doesn't have a SIM card so it's not useful for anything but test purposes.)
You don't want to. It will make your iPhone 4S absolutely unusable. The UI is clearly designed for the larger screens on later models and it's clear that they made the OS require more memory and processor power. You can argue if that was malicious (to force you to upgrade) or just "the cost of new features" but the fact of the matter is that they did.
Really Apple only supports the absolute latest. They may offer updates to older hardware, but there's absolutely no guarantee that the updates work in anything approaching a reasonable definition of work.