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The sad part is that you can't even do "ROM" replacements, it won't work for most people. Many countries have multiple apps that you more or less need to functi
by mrweasel 3y ago
The sad part is that you can't even do "ROM" replacements, it won't work for most people. Many countries have multiple apps that you more or less need to function in society, there needs to be a requirement for those apps to be installable on jail broken phones, not just via the official app store, if custom firmware is to make sense. Otherwise that old phone isn't going to provide much value anyway.
10 years of software update isn't actually unreasonable, if you can replace the battery on your phone easily. An iPhone 7 for instance is still a pretty useful phone for many, and I don't see any use cases that would chance that in the next couple of years.
- pteraspidomorph 3y agoIt's not just the official store. Google Safetynet, used by a whole lot of essential android apps such as banking apps (particularly essential in the EU after app confirmation became legally required for online transactions) and also completely unnecessarily by a lot of frivolous apps, prevents implementing apps from functioning in open/rooted android installs, unless you jump through a bunch of hoops to fool the app about the device's rooted state.
- threeseed 3y ago> there needs to be a requirement for those apps to be installable on jail broken phones That will not happen. You can't just allow banking and financial software to be run on a compromised OS. It is great for you but terrible for older people who would be exposed to rampant criminal fraud. The better approach is to force OEMs to support their phones for longer. 10 years is realistic.
- phh 3y agoI'm pretty confident that by most metrics custom ROMs are less compromised than OEM ROMs. It will have less malwares, I better sandboxing, less 3P backdoors , more up-to-date security updates. 1P here being the user/owner of the device