Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document

On 2024-05-17 17:26, Andrew wrote:

Hank Rogers wrote on Fri, 17 May 2024 17:04:49 -0500 :
 

Even if nobody is using them...

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Both phones suffer from the shitty and non-user replaceable batteries.
Glued together.

 This is true but at least 5% of Android models still have them.
While 0% of Apple models ever had user-replaceable batteries.

Which is irrelevant.

 

And the software that drops support after a few years.

 The full software support for Android is far better than iOS for a variety
of reasons which the Apple zealots would never be able to comprehend.

No... ...it's really not.

 For example, apple zealots are completely ignorant that all Android phones
(4.4 & above) are updated monthly completely seamlessly over the Internet.
 <https://www.androidheadlines.com/2022/01/google-monthly-changelog-play-system-updates.html>
   "Google System updates, meanwhile, are fully automated. Originally
    referred to as Project Mainline, these updates fix bugs discovered
    in various OS components like device connectivity, location services,
    media services, Emergency alerts, and others."

Is that every single update?
Don't you tout the wonder of being able to load software from anywhere?

 Google & Samsung phones have 7 years of multi-update full support.
  *Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years*
  <https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-extends-android-and-security-updates-to-7-years/>
  "Samsung phones now come backed with seven years' worth of
   security updates and seven generations of OS upgrades."

That's only for their latest phones.
Apple has mostly supported it's phones for longer than Samsung OR Google.

   *Google just put Apple and Samsung on notice - 7 years of software updates*
  <https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/google-pixel-8-software-updates>
  "That support covers everything, including full Android updates,
   the regular Pixel feature drops and security updates."
 Apple only fully supports one release and one release alone.
  <https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/about-software-updates-depc4c80847a/>

But supports phones going by 5 or 6 years ON that release.

 Which is partially why iPhones have more than 1-1/2 times known exploits!
  <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>
 The other part is by all accounts, Apple has the worst QA in the
industry, which was easily proven by Google's Project Zero analysis.

No, actually.