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[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 64 points 6 months ago

Just another byproduct of enshittification. Novadays, a top-end Garmin watch lasts about as long as a Chinese watch of a brand with random characters you buy off Amazon. Google is introducing planned obsolesence in Fitbit. Banking apps are beginning to require phones that are no more than 4 years old. TVs get bricked with firmware upgrades. So, consumers are trained to buy cheapest, least reliable electronics, because over time they'll provide more value than top-end items which used to last much longer. (This was written on a 13 years old phone. I may not have access to my banking app anymore, but otherwise it works for everything I need, and I haven't contributed to e-waste in this regard. Not that the pollution angle was my reason to keep the phone, but it's a nice extra bonus.)

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

I can guarantee this user is not using an iPhone from 2011 - the iPhone 4s went to shit after the first few years of updates

[-] dovahking@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I can guarantee that any Android phone with a good modding community can last this much. He's probably using Samsung galaxy s series or those old Google Nexus phone.

My phone's official support stopped at Android 10 yet I'm currently running Android 14 with the help of custom rom.

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