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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm on Android 9 and the only apps that haven't played nice are a couple banking apps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately banking apps are a necessity for lots of people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly. Though of the 9 that I attempted to install, 1 required a newer OS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine the number of security holes it has 🥹

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You apple fanboys are exaggerating that. On the 2.5 billion android devices, 88% of them aren’t running the latest version and probably would never get it. Yet I don’t see any widespread hacking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I responded to the wrong comment. The same person said that they are still running android 9 on their phone. It is a couple comments up from this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

902 security vulnerabilities published for Android 9, 179 of which are “critical” (9+) vulnerability scores.

Including “This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.”

Yeah, no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

most of them if not all are mitigated by google play services. otherwise there would be 2 billion of infected android phones and there would be many alarmist posts like when ten years ago stagefright happened