• elouboub@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What are you talking about? Other stuff still works too, they just don’t get official updates. If the phones can be flashed with a new ROM, there’s a good chance they still get community updates years later.

    That won’t matter though, since the EU is going to force 5 years of support.

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      1 year ago

      Other stuff still works too, they just don’t get official updates

      Still works, but is no longer secure and might not run your apps anymore.

      If the phones can be flashed with a new ROM

      Most can’t because the bootloader is locked. If they can, then you are relying on the community, and then it might not be secure. You are again relying on the communities to vet the software.

      Then there is grandma, shes gonna have to know how to unlock the bootloader, vet and flash ROMs

      Happy to hear the EU will be forcing 5 years of support. Im interested to see how that works out.