Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China

Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by fsflover on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:36PM (#25575921)

> but there’s nothing that will brick them

You simply should not use a smartphone without security updates. It's as good as a brick in this case. (Or maybe never use Internet and Bluetooth on it).

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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by simonh on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @06:48PM (#25576539)

So which OS or phone are you going to go with? Google only guarantees 3 years of support. Fairphone 2’s last OS update was 14 months ago, there’s no way that’s up to date with security issues so their track record is looking pretty dicey. After all they’re dependent on Google as well. Even if they do eventually get another update there’s no way a 14 month gap between security patches is acceptable. Fairphone only actually guarantee 2 years of support anyway.

So what phone do you use that can beat the iPhone 6 with 6 years of regular patches?

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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by fsflover on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:49AM (#25580208)

Did you actually read my replies above? I quote myself:

Librem 5 GNU/Linux phone has a lifetime support with updates.

The operating system is PureOS (Debian derivative). All necessary patches are upstreamed.

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