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Lack of updates of the OS in one side of it, but everything else in the phone updating and becoming more and more resource hungry is another issue. I am the ki

Lack of updates of the OS in one side of it, but everything else in the phone updating and becoming more and more resource hungry is another issue. I am the kind of person that never drops a phone and can replace a dying battery by myself. As long as parts are available, the most decisive factor for me to change a phone is the available RAM for apps, seconded by the lack of security updates. I wish proper software optimization and testing on older hardware was given more attention, It is sad to replace perfectly good hardware due to bloated software. That and society requiring me to use 5 different chat apps that could but refuse to talk to each other.

MichaelRo 3y ago
I never update. NEVER. Hate updates with a passion. If they don't break something rightaway (most of the times they do), are guaranteed to turn a snappy phone into a sluggish, barely-usable sort of a brick. Afterall you never install Windows 11 on your Windows 95 machine and if you did, it would be unusable. Yet the Win95 software is perfectly usable if you decide to stick to it. If I want new software I'll buy a new device that can run it. Old phones can last A LONG TIME. I only replaced my mother's Samsung Galaxy S4 last month and only because WhatsApp refused to work with it anymore (not that it couldn't but so are corporate decisions). In all it lasted 10 years, not bad for a phone with no updates. Like "the market will always go up long term", software updates are the cancer we were brainwashed to accept as some unquestionable axiom.
- Simulacra 3y ago
  I also avoid updates. They usually give me something I don't want, and take away some thing I do. On top of that with Apple devices, updates seem to slow the device down. I try to wait as long as possible before any updates.
- sebtron 3y ago
  This could work, in the past. Nowadays software is released under the assumption that it will be fixed with updates, so you rarely get anything working out of the box.

MichaelRo 3y ago

I never update. NEVER. Hate updates with a passion. If they don't break something rightaway (most of the times they do), are guaranteed to turn a snappy phone into a sluggish, barely-usable sort of a brick. Afterall you never install Windows 11 on your Windows 95 machine and if you did, it would be unusable. Yet the Win95 software is perfectly usable if you decide to stick to it. If I want new software I'll buy a new device that can run it. Old phones can last A LONG TIME. I only replaced my mother's Samsung Galaxy S4 last month and only because WhatsApp refused to work with it anymore (not that it couldn't but so are corporate decisions). In all it lasted 10 years, not bad for a phone with no updates. Like "the market will always go up long term", software updates are the cancer we were brainwashed to accept as some unquestionable axiom.

Simulacra 3y ago
I also avoid updates. They usually give me something I don't want, and take away some thing I do. On top of that with Apple devices, updates seem to slow the device down. I try to wait as long as possible before any updates.
sebtron 3y ago
This could work, in the past. Nowadays software is released under the assumption that it will be fixed with updates, so you rarely get anything working out of the box.