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Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet... by sneak on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:36PM (#21733382)
Not on these devices, it isn’t. Without Apple’s signing keys, they run whatever Apple gives you, until they are EOL’d and then they run nothing else, ever.
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Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet... by zepto on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:40PM (#21733397)
Yes but that’s irrelevant to the point.
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Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet... by sneak on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:47PM (#21733421)
I thought the point was that “the issues you are complaining about are just software, and software can be changed/updated”.

If Apple doesn’t make sufficient changes and upgrades, nobody else can - and the device is back to being an appliance that has the functionality that it has right now and nothing further, and it’s not “just a software upgrade away”.

There’s still no way to get the time display off of the face of my Apple Watch. You can customize everything except turning off the clock.

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