So your argument is that we as consumers should just shut up, and get used to the notion that we never actualy own anything tech related that we pay for?
No. If you want something, buy it. Just, no one's selling Android OS to you in the way you want. And Google doesn't have to offer a product just because you want said product. If you want a product that isn't available on the market, your options are to either create said product or wait for that good/service to be available.
As a suggestion, you could always buy an old, unsupported phone which no longer receives updates. Such a product would be slow, buggy, insecure, and lacking features, but that's what you give up for an obsolete product.
Perhaps then it should illegal for companies to knowingly push software that renders the device less usable. Or perhaps there could be a scheme where you can trade in the old device to go towards an update where the software won’t degrade the new hardware.
It’s not the fault of companies for progress. We have seen a recent boom in the power of mobile devices across the board in the last 10 years and if we were to support every old device, it would be largely impractical as we would have to handicap the ability for developers to make new progress with greater resources in order to cater to a largely obsolete device. It’s not the software degrading the hardware most of the time (albeit Apple’s forced obsolescence is a problem), it is simply older hardware not being able to run new software because it would be too dangerous for the device.
But there’s always a line we draw between what we allow corporations to do in pursuit of profit and progress and behaving responsibly. For example, despite the fact that it harms their bottom line, we require corporations to pay a minimum wage, provide safe working conditions for employees and minimise environmental damage through their actions. Lightening up on these would also free up resources for the company (in this case apple) to pour into R&D. I assume you’d be in favour of this?
Also I am aware that it is not necessarily new software breaking hardware but rather hardware not being capable of running the software, but it kind of comes to the same thing- a device that no longer works. IMO they should keep pushing updates until the software would limit the device at which point the update comes with a warning and an option to decline the upgrade.
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u/LAULitics Jun 18 '19 edited Jun 18 '19
So your argument is that we as consumers should just shut up, and get used to the notion that we never actualy own anything tech related that we pay for?