Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence

  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    My phone pushes over the air updates every couple of months. These have included android 13 and 14, and various patches.

    Android updates aren’t something you have to go and get, they come to you. Having the long term support means your phone will always have the latest user features and security improvements, even for non technical users. People can and do install these all the time.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Yes but that doesn’t address the fact that people won’t throw away their phone just because it doesn’t have an update.

      Plus user features for most people will be independent of the Android version since not many android features actually make it to Samsung’s touchwiz/oneui for example

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        6 months ago

        Eventually apps people care about stop supporting the old OS. I liked Android 4 so much and held to it for very long, but fewer and fewer apps were working with it