Motorola recently released phones with awful update policies, but it the company may have found a loophole regarding EU update laws.

Motorola recently launched several phones with no Android updates but five years of security patches in Europe.

This could be due to the company’s interpretation of EU regulations regarding software updates.

It seems like the regulations don’t actually force smartphone makers to offer software updates at all.

  • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    what does the new shiny android version has that is worth it? nothing, security fixes is enough, I am tired of shit updates the fuck with everything by oems that have shit QA and provide little to none security updates and often quite late, LOOKING AT YOU SAMSUNG, I swear if i have to factory reset my phone AGAIN because an update fucked something up again

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      what does the new shiny android version has that is worth it?

      oems that have shit QA

      That’s it in a nutshell. Recent Android versions added really nice features and APIs that app devs won’t bother implementing for a while, because even for the small percentage of users running recent Android versions, OEMs always find clever ways to fuck up their implementation of said APIs.