Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by Osiris on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:15PM
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I fixed the screen on an old iPhone 7 Plus. After rebooting it, it updated to iOS 15. As an Android user that's always made me jealous.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by tempnow987 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:27PM
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I know - it's just crazy and a totally different world.
It also really helps with resale value. I can't believe what I was getting for my old iphones.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by myko on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:38PM
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The difference is Apple OS updates on older devices don't always have all the features the new OS gets on newer hardware (which makes sense in many cases) while older Android phones can run most of the latest updates to Android (e.g., Jetpack Compose)
A SwiftUI app vs Compose app right now is night and day, bugs from iOS 13.5 to 13.6 are catastrophic meanwhile Android devices with extremely old operating systems run the latest UI toolkit with very few issues.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by vanilla_nut on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:19PM
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The 6S (and the SE, which also uses the A9) is still receiving all the latest OS updates, not just security updates, in 2022.
I for one won't "upgrade" to a bigger phone with no fingerprint sensor and no headphone jack. I don't agree with many things Apple does, but their iPhone support is pretty damn good.
Apple were releasing updates to the 6s in 2021 still. That's a 7 year old device. Security updates only pretty much - but still its crazy. My wife will not upgrade her old phone as a result (I get one every year through work and just sell my old one).