Less Than Half of Android Users Have Upgraded to Android 13 or 14! 🤯
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Android 14 has been out for 9 months and Android 13 was released almost two years ago, but less than 50% of Android users have devices running those versions...

Funny, the comment types here are the same as on Youtube:

  1. “I still run Android and it is totally fine, will never switch Android just got worse!”
  2. “Well, money”
  3. “Companies need to support phones longer”
  4. “I just use LineageOS on that device”
  5. Misinformation
  • echo@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s not like the end users typically get any choice… either the service provider makes an update available or they don’t.

    • limerod@reddthat.comMEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Your choice is making sure to buy a well supported, timely updated device. If you can’t is a different issue. But, if you don’t is on you. Vote with your wallet.

      • echo@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        As long as my provider is selling me service for the device then they have a responsibility to support it and provide upgrades. I do vote with my wallet by not being on the upgrade treadmill.

      • j4yt33@feddit.deEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Vote with your wallet

        Buy new device if old one isn’t supported anymore

        Hmm

      • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Your choice is making sure to buy a well supported, timely updated device.

        Sure, that choice is currently available, but it wasn’t when many of those devices were purchased. For example, I’m currently using a Galaxy S10e which had just about the best support of any Android phone. Now I’m stuck on Android 12. I actually planned on using it with Lineage, but somewhere between my S7 and the S10e, Samsung stopped using Exynos in their Canadian phones, and I didn’t realize it. The hardware is still more than good, and as others have pointed out, with Play Service updates, the software isn’t really obsolete either, it’s just a concern I’m not getting security updates.

        • limerod@reddthat.comMEnglish
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          4 months ago

          S10e. I was talking more about current devices. The next device you upgrade too should be better. Be it samsung, pixel, fairohone, oneplus, etc.

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Samsung is especially bad as they lock out security features for custom Android versions. (It is not a ROM, it is an OS).

          GrapheneOS would support Samsung, maybe. But they allow many critical security features like measured boot (I think) only for their own OS.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Samsung and Google sell phones with seven years of support or even longer now. We didn’t have that choice seven years ago (well, there was iPhone, but nothing like that on Android), but this problem has already been solved.

      Of course, phones with support cost more and not everyone is willing to pay for that, but there’s plenty of choice these days.