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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.

But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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[โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Which is also not true, most android deviced i have used got updates every 3-5 months with some small security patches between them.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For the first year or two, that's common. Getting feature updates for anything even approaching >5 years is near unthinkable for Android devices however. You only get that with custom ROMs and even there it's only half of the story as they can't provide security updates for vendor blobs which is kind of a big yikes.

    The iPhone 8 will get cut off the newest feature updates in the upcoming iOS 17; 6 years after launch. Security updates will likely be available for years to come. For comparison, my OnePlus 5 from 2017 (1 year younger) received its last update (any update whatsoever) in 2020 (3 years ago).

    With an Android device, you'd be lucky to get security patches in any regularity at all, much less >3 years after release. That only happens with a couple few vendors who actually care such as Nokia and maybe Google (to a degree).

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    For my custom rom i get vendor updates and theres about 1 update per month, open source devs are really

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The vendor blobs in custom ROMs come from the stock vendor ROM. When the vendor stops publishing their stock ROM, the custom ROM's will also stop coming. In some cases some BLOBs can be taken from similar devices that might be supported a bit longer but I believe this is quite rare.

    The ROM itself still gets updates through the AOSP but vendor BLOBs stay where they are and open source devs can do little to nothing about that.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Couldn't find anything about that online, could you please give me the source of that information?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I homebrew the ROM on my personal phone and I can tell you from first hand experience that you need the vendor dirs extracted from the OEM ROM. You can read up on that on the wiki pages for building any device ROM.

    You can also come to that conclusion the other way around: How else would you (or LOS maintainers) get your hands on proprietary blobs full of secret sauce that vendors sometimes even try to actively block access to?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Yeah this is a good point. Tbh I wish there was right to repair legislation around this. If you're not going to maintain it, you should be required to open source it, and you're not allowed to brick people's devices as a workaround.

    Nothing is keeping apple from dropping support in the same way, I'm kinda surprised how long they maintain support.

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