Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:18PM
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Um. I was actually going to concede the point, but look at your sibling comment. Apparently I'm not the craziest one in the room (believe me, I'm more surprised than you).
Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by geezerjay on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:04AM
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You've missed the point entirely. It's about software support (or lack thereof), not how the computational power progressed through the last decade.
Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by vbezhenar on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:49AM
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What't the point with software support if OS is unusable? I have iPhone 4S and it became unusuable when iOS 7 was released. I never wanted to upgrade, I wanted to downgrade which was impossible via official means. That's my main problem. If developers don't want to develop for old phones, that's their right. But they must not prevent me from installing old software.
Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by geezerjay on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:03AM
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> What't the point with software support if OS is unusable?
That's something for the users to decide. Imposing artificial restrictions to software, including forced obsolescence, is never a good thing.
Take a copy of a standard 2008 version of Ubuntu desktop and try and install it on a 1998 laptop. I doubt it’d run at all, not without ditching the default desktop.