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Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates
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iPhones, for example. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/08/apple-user-backlash-dropping-iphone-7-ios-16/
Granted, the lifespan is longer than the surface duo, but still. Apple does the same.
Oddly enough, I have an iPhone 7 I still use occasionally. It got a security update yesterday - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213913
6 years + 2-3 more years of security updates is a pretty good support cycle for a phone.
Complaining that the company that provides some of (if not the best) support for their phones is pretty silly. Especially considering that Google, androids gold standard is ~~a year~~ three years less than that.
Is it silly, though? Phones are essentially supercomputers at this point. It's hardly excusable that companies can't provide longer support.
They've always been computers. They just need to do different tasks than a computer would.
The phones OS is basically a firmware with how tightly integrated it is with the hardware. VS the EFI on your PC just hands everything off to windows and then it's up to drivers which may or may not be there after a major version update.
You don't have to explain to me how an electronic or digital phone works, but I appreciate the comment regardless.
And to be very technical: No, phones have not always been computers. I can't do Turing-complete work with a rotary phone from the 70s.