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Re:Termux no longer updated on Google Play by michaelt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:51AM (#25646761)
Phone manufacturers certainly ought to offer 5+ years of OS updates. Apple does, after all. So I agree with you to that extent.

But if users want third parties volunteers to support devices whose vendors have already dropped support? If there are no volunteers wanting to do the work, the work doesn't get done.

The bad guys here are the phone vendors, not the Termux developers IMHO.

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Re:Termux no longer updated on Google Play by app4soft on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:05PM (#25652484)
> The bad guys here are the phone vendors, not the Termux developers IMHO.

Here is Termux devs reply to Termux user:

> ... Time to upgrade your devices...[0]

Who is bad guy here according this quote?

P.S. It would not be so bad if devs just says "we don't support such devices", but instead devs declared to upgrade device in reply to user...

[0] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1407#issuecommen...

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Re:Termux no longer updated on Google Play by michaelt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:13PM (#25652567)
I'm not seeing a problem there?

I mean, I'll admit its tone is quite direct - I guess they could have copy-pasted some corporate-speak about what a difficult decision it was and how very sorry they were about having to make it, instead of being so direct and unambiguous. But that's pretty trivial IMHO.

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