On 23/05/2016 12:32 PM, Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
Robin Humble via luv-talk wrote:
sadly, that's pretty much the mobile phone business model. make something attractively light and yet incredibly fragile, which inevitably breaks, [...] manufacturers are probably happy that the limited half-life means they don't have to do android support for long. it's win-win for them.
I don't think rapid EOLs are because of product fragility. I think it's because consumers don't give a shit about security. See also http://androidvulnerabilities.org/ (TL;DR: if you own a smartphone, YOU LOSE.) _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-talk
Yes, it totally annoys me that we are told to make sure we have the latest updates for security.... but it is often impossible to get official updates even when they that are relatively new. Surprised that Nexus is so bad, is that Nexus overall? I would have thought the figure would be a lot better for a current Nexus model. Cheers A,