• M_Djallo@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      Actually in the past they updated their software even past the support from qualcomm, rewriting by themselves what was needed to allow and old chipset to run newer android version

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        Yeah, well, they are just doing what custom ROM makers have been doing for a decade and a half.

        My old Droid 4 was also EOL after Android 4.1. Custom ROM makers pushed this up to Android 7.1 by ignoring the parts (e.g. the Kernel) that they couldn’t update.

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      Fair enough. I should probably augment my tone a little bit. I understand that they are not doing this out of malice. But at the end of the day, it hurts the sale.  I’m not sure what the solution is.

      I mean the performance and the price just kind of steers me away. There isn’t enough going for this thing that makes me want to make the swap and change all of my systems I currently have in place. Especially when I can get objectively better hardware for the same price. 

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        The price is also higher because they use fair trade gold and whatnot. Given the mission to clean up the electronics industry it’s plesently suprising it doesn’t cost more