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> When you buy an Android product, you just feel used and abused. New cool Android version came out? Fuck you, buy a new phone. A new Samsung flagship gives yo
by celsoazevedo 3y ago
> When you buy an Android product, you just feel used and abused. New cool Android version came out? Fuck you, buy a new phone.
A new Samsung flagship gives you 4 years of new Android versions and an extra year of security updates. A Google Pixel is 3 major updates + 2 of security updates.
- sixdrum 3y agoThe iPhone 8, released in 2017, runs the latest of iOS (16).
- celsoazevedo 3y agoRight. My point is that you no longer have to buy a new phone every year just to get the latest Android version. The latest, similarly priced Samsung equivalent receives 4 major updates. Long term support is still not as good as iPhones, but it's no longer the old (to quote the comment above) "Fuck you, buy a new phone", not to mention that on Android some of the new iOS features are actually delivered as normal app updates (gallery app, maps, the equivalent to webkit, etc) or backported via Google services to 4-5+ year old Android versions (eg: file sharing, earthquake warnings, covid tracking support, etc).
- kyriakos 3y agoAnd even after those 5 years the phone is not a waste because most things on android are apps that update independently without an OS upgrade unlike ios where to get a new browser engine you need to upgrade the OS. Firefox supports android 5,which was released in 2014, that means a phone released in 2012 can still run the latest browser engine.