Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"

On 29/05/2025 4:47 pm, Anton Ertl wrote:

dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:

Are customers driving obsolescence - or it's forced on them by manufacturers?

 
How?
 

I could go for 10 years without upgrading phones, computers etc.  But I'm not
given the chance.

 
My phone is from 2009.  Nobody forces me to abandon it.  What chance
are you not given.

Had a two year old Samsung phone when Covid hit.  Access to public facilities
required using a state govt phone app.  The app needed Android 6.  Samsung
didn't have it and a new phone had to be bought.

Despite the local model coming with a price premium, Samsung never gave it an
Android update.  The hardware was also inferior, having omitted the USB flash
connection (present on the overseas model).  Manufacturers treating customers
like mugs?  Thanks to an Amazon Fire Stick, my smart Sony TV of only a few
years isn't on the scrap heap.