Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by sangnoir on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:22PM
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I think slow phone is more planned-obsolencence-y compared to "no OS upgrade, but phone works just as it did since the last supported upgrade - features and speed". I don't think the majority of users would know there is a new version out if they didn't get the upgrade nag-screens.
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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by zepto on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:28PM
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That sounds good in principle, except that 3rd party apps would also be frozen and start to fail.
Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by sangnoir on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:36PM
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> 3rd party apps would also be frozen and start to fail.
Only if they use online services that are taken down; not all apps are like this. Even if they are, it is still a better scenario than throwing the entire phone away because it's unusably slow or unsafe to use due to lack of security fixes.