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The point about control has some validity, but support lifetimes on iPhones/iPads are generally among the longest in the industry, at least if going by how long
by cosmic_cheese 1y ago
The point about control has some validity, but support lifetimes on iPhones/iPads are generally among the longest in the industry, at least if going by how long you continue to get full security updates.
There’s a good chance that various Android devices (though not all) will continue to get LineageOS updates for longer, but that’s caveated by things like baseband ceasing to be updated and becoming permanently vulnerable. Depending on the manufacturer this can happen in as short of a period of time as ~3 years.
- hagbard_c 1y agoSupport lifetimes on AOSP-derived distributions outpace those from all commercial vendors - and it is that iteration of Android which I use, not vendor distributions. I don't user commercial operating systems on my computers and and happy to skip them on my mobile devices as well. Baseband vulnerabilities are not the thing to worry over, the closed-source radio firmware blob is a leaky bucket by design which allows the TLA's of the world to use these devices for monitoring purposes and no update from ${vendor} is going to change that. If you don't want to be subjected to this you can not use devices which connect to 2/3/4/5G networks no matter how virtuous the vendor claims to be.