Motorola recently launched several phones with no Android updates but five years of security patches in Europe.
This could be due to the company’s interpretation of EU regulations regarding software updates.
It seems like the regulations don’t actually force smartphone makers to offer software updates at all.
what does the new shiny android version has that is worth it? nothing, security fixes is enough, I am tired of shit updates the fuck with everything by oems that have shit QA and provide little to none security updates and often quite late, LOOKING AT YOU SAMSUNG, I swear if i have to factory reset my phone AGAIN because an update fucked something up again
That’s it in a nutshell. Recent Android versions added really nice features and APIs that app devs won’t bother implementing for a while, because even for the small percentage of users running recent Android versions, OEMs always find clever ways to fuck up their implementation of said APIs.
which is peachy because the full source code is released with all the fucking features functional.
so much so 16year old lone rommers can get this shit to work
Samsung is trash.
Yes, fuck them. Samsung does random popups of an app that asks you if you want to update to their new OS.
If you’re in the middle of something and accidentally press the update button when it pops up without warning, your phone will reboot and start updating.
Samsung follows the Microsoft version of consent where your phone will update and the best you can do is delay a couple of times.