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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by shims on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:18PM (#20830881)
People buy busses because they're busses.

Almost noone buys a phone because it's super locked down and some company decides when it's too old and can't install apps from the app store anymore.

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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by judge2020 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:47PM (#20831195)
FWIW Apple devices can still download apps from multiple versions back (my ipad mini can download apps on ios 9), developers might just set a minimum OS requirement if they use certain new APIs.
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