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This has been mentioned a thousand times over: on Android devices one can usually install LineageOS when the vendor support runs out. No such option for iPhone
by qplex 9y ago
This has been mentioned a thousand times over: on Android devices one can usually install LineageOS when the vendor support runs out.
No such option for iPhones.
When the support runs out you will be left hanging.
- duskwuff 9y agoApple's OS support for iOS devices has generally been quite generous -- 5 years is typical. For example, iOS 11, which was released in September 2017, dropped support for the iPhone 5, which was released in September 2012.
- qplex 9y agoThe point is that after the support runs out you're out of luck - there are no alternatives in the Apple ecosystem.
- innagadadavida 9y agoWhat support do you need? Not hypothetical ones. Have you discovered any new vulnerability in iOS 8/9/10 that we don’t know about please do share.
- qplex 9y agoA web browser with the latest security patches. Read my other comments in this thread for anecdotes.
- hedora 9y agoIs anyone here running current lineage os on a phone that old (e.g., samsung s3 or worse)? Is it actually a decent experience with support for current play store apps, etc?
- qplex 9y agoSamsung Galaxy S3 will run LineageOS 14.1 just fine. Gapps work well also. It's even officially supported by the project. It will also run faster than stock roms since there is no vendor bloat.
- valuearb 9y agoVirtually no Android users know how to install LineageOS, as a mobile developer all usage stats show that Android fragmentation is real and awful. Huge percentage of Android users never get updates.
- qplex 9y agoI agree. It's too difficult. Most users don't know how to update even if there are vendor supported updates available.
- askafriend 9y agoIf my mother doesn't know what "LineageOS" is then it's completely irrelevant to this discussion. It's especially odd that you'd bring up something like a niche OS when we're talking about environmental impact at scale. The amount of people that even know what "LineageOS" is a minuscule number relative to the global impact of software like iOS and Android. Simply put, LineageOS does not matter - at all. I'm glad that you like it, and it's cool that there's an option for you to install that on your phone but it just does not matter in the same way that Linux on desktop simply does not matter if you're talking about consumer product.
- qplex 9y agoThe option is there for everyone. If your mother can not install LineageOS then you or somebody else can do it for her.
- askafriend 9y agoI think you're completely missing my point. At scale, this is not a real solution. Sure I can install it for my mom, but we're talking about billions of people here. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to really urge you to think differently and stretch your imagination a bit more here. Systems thinking at scale makes this something more than simply a technology problem/discussion. Have you ever heard of the saying "A tool that no one knows about isn't useful at all"?
- qplex 9y agoSo you are arguing that at a scale it makes no difference to ride a bicycle since everyone else drives a car. I'm not sure what to say to this. I really don't have any answers to big societal problems.
- Apocryphon 9y agoRiding a bicycle is far more intuitive, effective, and scalable than installing LineageOS is, which is why it is far more commonplace.