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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by ChrisSD on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:33AM (#18896796)
This is less possible on the Android side of things. The standard now is three years of security updates from the time of first release. And this often doesn't include device driver and some middleware updates.

Obviously people do hold on to phones for longer than the support term but that's far from ideal.

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Re:A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devi... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:47PM (#18898025)
Is that in USA? I had to bypass my UK provider to install any updates. I imagine software updates limit hardware updates considerably.
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