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On 01/06/2014 02:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt
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Enter signed software. The certificate expires and nobody cares to update the application and sign it again. The OS then refuses to launch it. Case in point with my perfectly hardware-wise functional Symbian Nokia phone. Since I don't believe I'm going to get a better service from either IOS or Android, I just don't buy a new phone.Diego Iastrubni <elc...@kde.org> writes:A sound advice - if you don't see the device you want to buy on Cyanogen's list, don't buy it. In 2 years it will be useles if you cannot put newer software on it.Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it did then what it says on the tin it will still do it now, won't it? Without any new software... Functionality that did not exist or was not supported when you bought your device will not necessarily be backported to your device's original firmware or to the official updates thereof. This does not render the device useless, just potentially a bit less future-proof than others. [I cannot give a compelling example of such functionality, but I can imagine it might exist.] -- Michael |
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