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Re:Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan by evanlivingston on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:42AM (#16493523)
Yes
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Re:Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan by Spartan-S63 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:05PM (#16493793)
No, it doesn't. Not through the OEM. The last version of Android was Marshmallow which is two major versions behind the most current.

Sure, you can flash it yourself to the latest version, but there's no guarantee that it'll work. In my book, not having support from the OEM on the latest possible version of Android that can be loaded on your device does not count as having access.

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Re:Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan by evanlivingston on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:36PM (#16496601)
That completely counts as having access.

Lenovo doesn't provide OEM support for ubuntu on my thinkpad, but that doens't mean to I don't have access to it.

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Re:Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan by jvzr on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:57AM (#16500531)
Through a custom ROM or something akin, I imagine? Not through regular channels, such as a regular software update notification received on the old version

Not exactly the most consumer-friendly way to get software updates. That's not comparable to how Apple does it

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