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by tuyiown 674 days ago
Yes, and it does come with its lot of problems. I've never heard of ransomware attacks on phones, for example.
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There are plenty of vulnerabilities for old versions and plenty of people that don't install updates or have out-of-support phones. I need look no further than my immediate family to have multiple examples of both (yes I help them manage this). Yet I've never heard of anyone experiencing negative consequences from not updating a phone. (At least, not beyond some high-profile people that made the news.) Computers, sure. But why not phones? Is the data on there not valuable enough? Too often sync'd to a server?

I don't know but there's something here beyond the ability to install software like you've always been able to do on Android

Does it though? iPhones enjoy a nice isolation model, installing a browser shouldn’t break that.