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vacri's comment made me chuckle. I do not understand why someone thinks it is an acceptable practice to force the replacement of adequate hardware due to the la
by vlan0 11y ago
vacri's comment made me chuckle. I do not understand why someone thinks it is an acceptable practice to force the replacement of adequate hardware due to the lack of software updates.
When security should be a concern in this ecosystem, vacri tells users to root their phone and presumably either load some amatuer dev's ROM or port and compile their own.
I just don't see any of that being helpful for the average user.
- maxerickson 11y agoI do not understand why someone thinks it is an acceptable practice to force the replacement of adequate hardware due to the lack of software updates. That is not a fair summary of what they said.
- vlan0 11y agothen finally filtered out to the lazy 98.8% who couldn't be bothered disposing of their phone and buying a new one (or>rooting and upgrading their phone manually or abandoning their contract to get the marginal improvements over now-mature products). This is the bulk of what I was referring to in the comment. The first line is a blatant attack against anyone who is not willing to part with their phone. By even telling users that is what they should do with their Android phone, the author is supporting this viscous cycle.
- maxerickson 11y agoI read that as sarcasm, it's making fun of the idea of writing a story about limited adoption after such a short time (and given the mentioned hurdles to switching), not actually mocking the 98.8%.
- vlan0 11y agotldr - I hate Internet sarcasm, for this reason. :) Thanks for clarifying, it clearly went right over my head!