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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by jiggawatts on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:17PM (#31140023)
I gave my 6-year old iPhone to elderly relatives and it still gets security upgrades.

Google “upgraded” to less than any other mainstream computing platform. Windows gets about 10 years of security updates for each major version, up to 15 if you pay extra.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by cogman10 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:12PM (#31140980)
And that is just for the OS itself.

Hardware wise, you can easily pull out 20 years or longer simply by constantly bumping up the OS version.

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