Agreed. I think there needs to be a better term for the reality of the situation, something like "negligent obsolescence". There's no technological limitation preventing Samsung from updating those for a decade or more, they just don't care. A battery degrading over time isn't planned obsolescence, and while not being able to easily replace the battery might be, more likely it's that they just don't bother to put in the slightly extra effort to make the batteries easier to replace. Right to Repair mandates would be a good start in ensuring manufacturers are properly motivated.

While true, Microsoft used to be able to do a much better job of it (and still does, compared to Android).

> If you create a new version of chrome, you cant affort to support all version of android. If you create a new version of youtube, you cant afford to support all versions of chrome, etc, etc.

Google is making billions per year, they can certainly afford to support all versions of Android. They just choose to pocket the money and screw their customers instead.

Correction I installed Opera.

Anyone know why opera can run on android 4 and the latest Chrome can't/wont?

you should at least have a way to install another OS on it then. So IMO driver blobs are a real part of the problem here