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Right because every part of the OS consist of the apps. First you said that there weren’t any statistics and now that I post statistics from Google they are “nonsensical”. Do you have any more reliable numbers or just more conjecture? Because in your world, it is more secure to not be able to update the entire OS than to have to do a reboot.....
> now that I post statistics from Google they are “nonsensical”. Your statistics are for a nonsensical metric as I have repeatedly pointed out. The correct statistic is how quickly Android devices that are known to get updates get updates because those are the only devices that anybody who cares about security updates should buy. > Because in your world, it is more secure to not be able to update the entire OS than t…
So that’s “the correct statistic” as long as you ignore the literally billion Android phones that don’t get updates compared to the 0% of iPhones that were introduced since 2011 that haven’t gotten an update in the last 3 months.
In other news, everyone in the US is rich as long as you ignore all of the poor people....
It is more secure to have a device that updates the base system quickly and updates the apps instantly without the user noticing. ^
So the “base system” consists of applications* not the underlying operating system....
In 30+ years of being in the computer industry professionally and as a hobbyist, I’ve never heard anyone consider applications as the “base system”.
It is more secure to have a device that updates the base system quickly and updates the apps instantly without the user noticing. There are devices that do that, and there are devices that don't. The devices that don't are so inferior to the devices that do that they shouldn't be used.
So the vast majority of Android phones shouldn’t be used and none should be used considering the average amount of time people are keeping their phones is longer than the time that any manufacturer is supporting them?
So 90%+ of all Android phones “shouldn’t be used” even if you’re charitable and ignore the phones that only get updated for a couple of years....
Btw, to get a clue about how an ecosystem should work where one company is responsible for the operating system and other companies sell the hardware, look no further than Microsoft. Not only are one of my computers that is used as a Plex server over 10 years old and still running the latest version of Windows (a Dell Core 2 Duo circa 2009), my mom is still using my old Mac Mini circa 2006 running a supported version of Windows 7.