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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Big difference: on android you can stay 6 version behind and you probably find any incompatible app during real life use. Browser and framework (google play services) continue to get updates

On iOS once your device stops getting updates it becomes ewaste as almost every app becomes incompatible after 1-2 years . Browser stops getting updates at all so your browsing experience will degrade fast

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm on Android 9 and the only apps that haven't played nice are a couple banking apps.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately banking apps are a necessity for lots of people.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Certainly. Though of the 9 that I attempted to install, 1 required a newer OS.

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine the number of security holes it has 🥹

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You apple fanboys are exaggerating that. On the 2.5 billion android devices, 88% of them aren’t running the latest version and probably would never get it. Yet I don’t see any widespread hacking.

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I responded to the wrong comment. The same person said that they are still running android 9 on their phone. It is a couple comments up from this one.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

902 security vulnerabilities published for Android 9, 179 of which are “critical” (9+) vulnerability scores.

Including “This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.”

Yeah, no thanks.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

most of them if not all are mitigated by google play services. otherwise there would be 2 billion of infected android phones and there would be many alarmist posts like when ten years ago stagefright happened

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