Motorola recently released phones with awful update policies, but it the company may have found a loophole regarding EU update laws.

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.

  • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    what does the new shiny android version has that is worth it?

    oems that have shit QA

    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.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      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