5 days
Ah thanks, my bad; I must have remembered incorrectly. I’ve updated my original comment
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Just a snek on the internet | Call me Doppler (or just Snek) | He/they | Forever in love with my Cuddlefish 🖤🩶🤍💜
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Huh…I’m guessing banking apps? Those are the only ones that have ever given me problems on old Android devices
Source?
As far as I know, nearly all flagship phones, Apple or otherwise, get about 7 years of update support (
except Pixel phones with GrapheneOS which get 14ignore; I remembered this incorrectly).The difference is, even my old phone running Android 8 (a 9yo OS) can still browse the web, run all apps, and perform fine as a phone. An even older phone running Android 4.4 can still run 3rd party apps. iPhones seem to stop working about a year after they stop receiving updates, and they don’t support sideloading (also know as running the software you want to run on the device you own).
Oh trust me, I’m no fan of Samsung, but I tend to value control of my devices over…whatever it is Apple does. I had an iPhone until I discovered replacing the home button myself artificially bricked the device due to DRM forcing customers to go to an Apple store for repairs. Never again