| It takes only one slip up to screw your security. One targeted attack that you don't notice because you're in a rush. I love my MotoX 2013, but it never got updates (Sprint model, Sprint blamed Motorola, Motorola blamed Sprint); it's succeptible to Stagefright so I can't use it anymore. And it will never receive an update for it. As much as we use our phones and as much personal information is on them, security updates should be first and foremost. Yes, AOSP exists for some devices, but 9 times out of 10, something breaks when using it. When Android moves to a new way of doing audio or video, drivers stop working, and some people try to come up with shims, but as others point out. The developer of it gets a new phone and the project dies. My Nexus 5 (November 2013) hasn't gotten a security update since October 2016. My iPhone 5 (September 2012) just got an update to 10.3.3 in July. Android devices are notorious for being slow to get updates, if you ever get them at all. Yeah it can be cheaper to get an Android device, and I have quite a few, but they simply aren't up to the same standards that iPhones are. |