• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    In general, the mobile tech sector is “growing up” and supporting products longer.

    [Citation required.]

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      8 months ago

      Literally just gave multiple examples. If you want a research paper, you aren’t going to find it.

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        8 months ago

        Literally just gave multiple examples. If you want a research paper, you aren’t going to find it.

        You said some things that I’m calling b.s. on, as far “… That’s going to put a huge dent in the e-waste …” goes.

        If anything they’re supporting hardware with driver/OS updates less now than before.

        I have a good working Android tablet that I’ve replaced the batteries on twice that I now can no longer use because the OS won’t get updated any more (security risk, etc.). Perfectly working, has to go in the trash.

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          If anything they’re supporting hardware with driver/OS updates less now than before.

          That is literally false information. Prior to the last year there has been no version of Android that has more than 4 years of operating system security updates, before that it was common to be 3 and before that 2. They bumped it to 7.

          I have a good working Android tablet that I’ve replaced the batteries on twice that I now can no longer use because the OS won’t get updated any more (security risk, etc.). Perfectly working, has to go in the trash.

          Literally what I just explained they’ve been working to change, and have changed for their latest devices.