We need to get to a point where smartphone work for more than 5 years. Hardware wise the battery is the only part that is guaranteed to need to be replaced.
Now whether they do it by stopping the race on Android version or supporting every device is up to them.
Desktop OS (Windows or Linux) support any version as long as the PC is powerful enough. Why on phone we’re limited not by the capabilities of the CPU but its release date?
Desktop OS (Windows or Linux) support any version as long as the PC is powerful enough.
Windows 10 will stop being supported next year, and Windows 11 can’t be installed on old computers without regedit trickery.
32bit support was cut from most Linux distros.
So while it’s true that desktop hardware is supported a lot longer, it’s not supported indefinitely.
We need to get to a point where smartphone work for more than 5 years. Hardware wise the battery is the only part that is guaranteed to need to be replaced.
Now whether they do it by stopping the race on Android version or supporting every device is up to them.
Desktop OS (Windows or Linux) support any version as long as the PC is powerful enough. Why on phone we’re limited not by the capabilities of the CPU but its release date?
Windows 10 will stop being supported next year, and Windows 11 can’t be installed on old computers without regedit trickery.
32bit support was cut from most Linux distros.
So while it’s true that desktop hardware is supported a lot longer, it’s not supported indefinitely.