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Hard disagree: I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but: 1. teleg
by rosetremiere 3y ago
Hard disagree:
I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but:
1. telegram/whatsapp do, so it's definitely possible.
2. The point is not to add new features, but just to leave the current version be without deprecating it.
There is probably a bit of a development burden in keeping old versions up, but I don't think it's that big: they could even let the community take care of that…
3. But most importantly, "the iphone 6 had a good run", so the natural continuation to that sentence is "so let's discard all those working devices" ? wtf?
I think that from a company that defends "public interests", some more thought should be given to not wasting energy, time and money forcing people to upgrade working smartphones…
- gregjor 3y agoI think you have an idealistic interpretation of Apple's PR. No one is forced to upgrade, your phone presumably still works as a phone and as a camera, music player, etc. Apple has nothing to do with Signal. They do offer a trade-in program, though an iPhone 6 won't get much.
- kstenerud 3y agoYou can disagree all you like, but they lay out their policy here: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/5109141421850-Supporting-Older-Operating-Systems https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/5109141421850-S... My guess would be that they want to dump the messy and easy-to-screw-up CommonCrypto code and switch fully to CryptoKit, which was introduced in ios 13. If you don't like their way of running their project, you have other options.