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This is not true for most people. They get comfortable with their phones and they don't see any reason to change something that works. My friend has had her ph
by dkjaudyeqooe 1y ago
This is not true for most people. They get comfortable with their phones and they don't see any reason to change something that works.
My friend has had her phone for 7 years and she's being pushed off it because apps are refusing to run on it now. No other reason than that.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoAnd this would not change anything about that.
- Kbelicius 1y agoYes it would. > longer availability of operating system updates, at least 5 years from the date the last unit model is sold
- bmacho 1y ago5 years is a joke.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoAvailability of OS updates does not imply "ideal" user experience...
- williamdclt 1y agoWell the person you're replying to didn't say anything about "ideal" user experience, they're talking about the phone being usable. There's a whole spectrum between these two points
- yoavm 1y agoThe article mentions "longer availability of operating system updates, at least 5 years from the date the last unit model is sold". So it would absolutely change everything about that.
- reycharles 1y agoNot directly, but it sets a course where this might change.
- kristianp 1y agoPart of the reason apps don't work is because the upgrade policies of the app stores, requiring ever increasing minimum OS version. Forced software obsolescence.
- pndy 1y agoAye. In last years I quite often saw comments in Apple's appstore from really angry people whose devices were left behind after one update. The developers/companies and the garden's guardians gave them unspoken "get new phone" option.
- nolist_policy 1y agoNot true, no one stops you from publishing a app for Android 1.0 on the Play store. It's going to be hard though, you won't be able to request any permissions etc.
- Semaphor 1y agoI have an alarm app for android (Gentle Alarm), that’s IMO by far the best there is (YMMV obviously, but I never found another one with the same features). It was originally paid, but long ago abandoned (as in: the dev disappeared completely). Using it today required unpacking the APK, changing the manifest, repacking, and then installing it via ADB using the `-bypass-low-target-sdk-block` flag, then manually adding the "draw over other apps" permission. Once that is done, it works fully as expected. I dread the day some new version will fully block it.
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