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My biggest grievance with android and smart phones in general is their pathetically short support period. I have a stack of phones which are perfectly functiona
by mikedilger 7y ago
My biggest grievance with android and smart phones in general is their pathetically short support period. I have a stack of phones which are perfectly functional hardware but no longer updated. If you wait for the price of a newly released phone to come down to the knee in the price curve, you've waited too long because that phone will only be supported for about one more year. This angers me greatly and I have a strong emotional aversion to even the idea of buying a new smartphone. I may even cut off my nose to spite my face in this regard and buy a dumb phone.
- saagarjha 7y agoiPhones usually get software support for at least two years since the last possible date you could buy them. Usually this means 4-5 years if you buy on launch day.
- pishpash 7y agoBuy only bootloader unlockable phones. But Googlers are doing their best these days to disable them as "insecure".
- justaj 7y agoDoes that really make such a difference? If the baseband and wifi require closed binary blobs which are cryptographically signed to a specific kernel version, what is the point of having an unlocked bootloader or installing alternative ROMs?
- solarkraft 7y agoHow common are blobs cryptographically signed to a specific kernel version? My impression was that with AOSP running it's fairly easy to update the Android versions (the blobs can still contain vulnerabilies, of course).