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How long do you keep dailying a phone after the security updates for it end? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Phones are getting better support lives these days, but they still physically outlast their software support. How important is that safety net/blanket for you?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I had Android, I regularly used phones past the point that they got security updates. Even a supposedly premium phone was hobbled by carriers/networks not releasing updates and cheaper phones didn’t have them for long.

Since moving to iPhone (where the 6S is still getting security updates ) I haven’t had a phone long enough for the updates to stop.