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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by Algent on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:50AM (#27627856)
With modern high end smartphone it's the same issue. At best you get 2 years of patchs now, which is ridiculous because they really expect people to be able to afford >700€ phones that often.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by andylynch on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:49AM (#27628187)
I think that's more a specific vendor / android thing? I just bought a 2016 iPhone SE second hand. It's running the latest iOS 14 right now, and is officially supported on iOS 15 too.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by FridayoLeary on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:12AM (#27630998)
I think Apple is an outlier in terms of support, which i think is silly, because 5 years of support really should be taken for granted. There are many working phones or computers that are 10 or 15 years old and healthy.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by fencepost on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:12AM (#27631787)
This is why I'm partway through switching from Android to Apple as I replace devices. I could go with Android devices more likely to have third-party ROM support, but if I'm going to be concerned about security and patching why should I trust a pseudonymous person on a website forum to run my device?

As more security-related features get added in Android is also losing some of its differentiating abilities - e.g. wifi scanning isn't possible on iOS, but I think it's also been getting more restricted on Android in the last couple releases. That and the must-use-our-webkit browser restrictions on iOS are the only things that that have really annoyed me on iOS.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by Eric_WVGG on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:12PM (#27634375)
2015 iPhone 6S's are still getting patches, in fact it'll be compatible with iOS 15 this coming fall. It'll have seven years of ongoing support by this time next year.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by andi999 on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:56AM (#27627883)
You have a Citation? I read 5-7 years.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by bellyfullofbac on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:16AM (#27627998)
Pixel XL released October 2016 (from [1]), no guaranteed updates after October 2018 [2].

I looked at the Pixel 4, released October 2019, discontinued October 2020, no guaranteed updates after October 2022...

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_xl-8345.php [2] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=...

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by andi999 on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:20AM (#27628016)
That is not at best, probably this is at worst. But thanks for the info.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by csnweb on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:44AM (#27628801)
Unfortunately the 3 guaranteed years of updates for pixels is pretty much the best in the Android world. There are very few exceptions like FairPhone reliably providing long term updates
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by LeonidasXIV on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:27AM (#27628370)
In Android-land this is currently about the best actually. There is a chance of it improving over time as the updates will be decoupled from hardware support but the situation is markedly worse than on iOS.
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