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“Phone companies can’t support their hardware forever” Ok, fine, it should be mandatory then that EOL hardware be unlocked and able to run FOSS operating syste

“Phone companies can’t support their hardware forever” Ok, fine, it should be mandatory then that EOL hardware be unlocked and able to run FOSS operating systems. iPhone 7, for instance, has plenty of life left in the hardware, yet are being “recycled” due to ended IOS support.

dijit 4y ago
The issue isn't really that the phone stops working, it's that the apps do. My primary reason for not jailbreaking or rooting my phone is that my banking apps detect it and fail to run. One of those banking apps (Called BankID) is basically mandatory for living in the Sweden (Similarly in Norway & Denmark). It's basically an identity verification system that keeps some kind of signed private key in your phone, meaning you can identify yourself for basically everything. Without that App, the other apps that control my life (my Digital mailbox, my electric company, my phone company, my bank, even paying for things online) do not work.
- courgette 4y ago
  that's insanely shitty. I saw the same thing in France with the Postal service. I thought "oh good, good old post-office is providing identity, good for them". But yeah, pretty sure it wont be open as well.
  - themoonisachees 4y ago
    "L'identitee numerique la poste" can work under latest magisk. Delete all app data, enable exclusion list and add the app to the exclusion list. You need the app for good old CPF.
    - courgette 4y ago
      I lives outside of the country since a while and they have been hounding me down to onboard. Hm
scarface74 4y ago
The iPhone 5S just got a security update a few months ago and even if the newest version of an app doesn’t support the OS version you are running, you can still download the “last compatible version”.
- asdff 4y ago
  App developers silently kill their own apps through other means too. Try downloading an app like snapchat on that 5s. You won't be allowed to log in with a version that old.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    You act as if it is done out of malice. They drop support for older APIs that they don’t have to maintain. On the other hand, I don’t think Netflix has ever dropped support for its oldest API. As of two or three years ago, Netflix still worked on an original iPad (2010). It was the first mobile device to get Netflix support. Spotify also worked on my first generation iPad as well as a few other streaming services like Crackle and YouTube

dijit 4y ago

The issue isn't really that the phone stops working, it's that the apps do. My primary reason for not jailbreaking or rooting my phone is that my banking apps detect it and fail to run. One of those banking apps (Called BankID) is basically mandatory for living in the Sweden (Similarly in Norway & Denmark). It's basically an identity verification system that keeps some kind of signed private key in your phone, meaning you can identify yourself for basically everything. Without that App, the other apps that control my life (my Digital mailbox, my electric company, my phone company, my bank, even paying for things online) do not work.

courgette 4y ago
that's insanely shitty. I saw the same thing in France with the Postal service. I thought "oh good, good old post-office is providing identity, good for them". But yeah, pretty sure it wont be open as well.
- themoonisachees 4y ago
  "L'identitee numerique la poste" can work under latest magisk. Delete all app data, enable exclusion list and add the app to the exclusion list. You need the app for good old CPF.
  - courgette 4y ago
    I lives outside of the country since a while and they have been hounding me down to onboard. Hm

scarface74 4y ago

The iPhone 5S just got a security update a few months ago and even if the newest version of an app doesn’t support the OS version you are running, you can still download the “last compatible version”.

asdff 4y ago
App developers silently kill their own apps through other means too. Try downloading an app like snapchat on that 5s. You won't be allowed to log in with a version that old.
- scarface74 4y ago
  You act as if it is done out of malice. They drop support for older APIs that they don’t have to maintain. On the other hand, I don’t think Netflix has ever dropped support for its oldest API. As of two or three years ago, Netflix still worked on an original iPad (2010). It was the first mobile device to get Netflix support. Spotify also worked on my first generation iPad as well as a few other streaming services like Crackle and YouTube