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Those phones are insecure.
by spankalee 5y ago
Those phones are insecure.
- dleslie 5y agoOnly because Google stopped supporting them.
- ggggtez 5y agoThe actual problem is OEMs. These devices have no auto update, so Verizon/Samsung etc has to write the updates afaik.
- cyberlurker 5y agoDid Apple also drop support for equally old iPhones? I believe they provide security updates for at least 5 years, but I’m not sure.
- LucidLynx 5y agoiOS 15 will support at least iPhone SE (1st gen), released in 2016 - so approximately 6 years of support indeed (if iOS 16 does not support the iPhone SE too).
- Hamuko 5y agoI don't think Apple has any official "at least X years" support but they're generally pretty good about it. iOS 15 will be on the iPhone 6S when it launches this year, which will be a 6-year-old device at that point.
- Hamuko 5y agoGoogle almost never actually provides end-user device support though. It's on the device manufacturers and they lose interest in like 18 months, or perhaps in 36 months if you're lucky.
- pvarangot 5y agoYeah because everything after 2.3 isn't... The reason is that it's not cost effective.