• Sam Clemente@allthingstech.social
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      5 months ago

      @FarraigePlaisteach @return2ozma 5 years is way longer than most people keep their phones, and it’s also “at least” Apple has been known to push updates to older devices way past that

      An update to iOS 15 came out not too long ago iirc

      Plus there are so many variables that go into whether a device will be able to actually run a particular version of software so giving a hard commitment at all is going to be conservative

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      As opposed to the practices of which company?

      Giving only a few years of support is not a great practice, but that’s the world we live in. If we had fully open source phones, then the community could provide the updates for much longer, but there’s still a pretty long way to go in that regard.