[chimeracoder]

> So basically, stop using smartphones, because it's fucking ridiculous to drop hundreds of dollars every 4 years on a device that is virtually the same thing as your old one. This is a huge joke, and Google and Apple need to do better or stop milking us.

I mean, you're literally posting this complaint on a thread about a phone that is now legally bound to receive seven years of updates.

[toastercat]

OK replace 4 with 7 in my above comment. My mistake.

[chimeracoder]

While there have been flagship phones that have received support for seven years, no other phone has been released with a legally binding up-front commitment to provide support for seven years.

It feels very misplaced to complain about obsolescence on a thread in that context.

[jowea]

As someone in a similar situation to other poster, I'm still annoyed at the choice between buying a new phone (with the financial and environmental consequences) or having to deal with the maybe I'm invisibly hacked maybe I'm not when all I want is security updates and/or a software that is built with enough safety to avoid zero-click exploits.

But yeah, this is a good news thread, thank you Google.

[toastercat]

I think my comment is not very misplaced given the original comment above in this comment chain.