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Re:Essential Phone, available now on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:18PM (#15040508)
Apps do get updates, but they aren't the issue. The system/kernel/system libraries don't get updates and if they are compromised all your apps are compromised too. If someone know a vulnerability only in a normal app he can't do anything but look at only this one app, with system access well he can do way more.

(Also Android got some additional security/privacy features after Android 4)

Re:Talos II on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:24PM (#14963507)
They had a video of playing Unreal Tournament (the new one) on a Talos 1 with a AMD card.

As long as a card with Open Source driver support gets used it should work mostly fine. Back then they need a 4line patch to play ut4.