• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I’m not defending apple here. Short OS support (or none at all) is not a good thing, and it’s something that’s sadly still quite common if you buy the wrong Android brand.

    Samsung is doing pretty well in that regard right now.

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      2 hours ago

      In other words do not confuse long support with good support as these are totally different things

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      2 hours ago

      Sorry, didn’t think I had to clarify it. Long support is good IF has good intentions behind it. Most long supported os has bad intentions behind it as making old models inferior and unusable as in case with ios on iphone 5. For example in my opinion windows xp was THE best windows, maybe on par with seven. So if you give me two options, first is updating my phone so it becomes laggy and unusable or keep current version, I will choose to stay on old OS.

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        55 seconds ago

        It really depends on what your goal is. Usability, keeping a familiar interface, performance, all of that are things that make it reasonable to stay on an outdated OS, and none of these reasons are bad.

        Security (which is the only thing we are really talking about here) does require updates.

        If security is your most important concern, you need to update. If security is not your biggest concern and other topics are more important for you, it might be reasonable to stay on older versions.

        But in the context of this post, which was purely about security, having long term security updates is important.