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It's one of the reasons I moved from Google to Apple. iPhones 5-6 yrs old still supported. I always thought iPhones were too expensive, but I didn't take into
by e40 5y ago
It's one of the reasons I moved from Google to Apple. iPhones 5-6 yrs old still supported. I always thought iPhones were too expensive, but I didn't take into account the upgrade cost every 2 yrs on Android.
- elboru 5y agoSame here, I bought my first iPhone almost 4 years ago. It still works like the first day. I used to like constant change (installing different roms, customizing my phone, waiting for the next cool Android UI refresh, switching phones every 2 years etc). But as I get older I started to like consistency and the feeling of using my phone for years without thinking too much about updates and whether I would get them or not.
- baq 5y agosame here. turns out an iphone 8 is a damn good phone today and I expect the new iphone se to be the TCO-wise budget choice.
- opan 5y agoThis seems backwards to me. You can still run modern Android versions on old phones like the OnePlus One thanks to LineageOS. There is no custom ROM scene for iOS devices.
- fuzzy2 5y agoExcept you cannot. The graphics driver of my Nexus 5 no longer receives updates. It is not compatible with newer Android versions. And… that's it. Just like that, no more updates. Less than two years after I bought it.
- h4waii 5y agoThere are numerous open source builds of AOSP forks for the Nexus 5, including LineageOS. Yeah, you're not gonna get baseband / blob / firmware updates or security patches outside of platform, but the damn thing is 8 years old.
- fuzzy2 5y agoThe Nexus 5 issue was just an example. Even phone makers are totally dependent on Qualcomm etc. providing drivers and maybe updates to those drivers. It's not like you can just hack updates together yourself. Not always anyway.