by JohnFen on 9/29/2021, 1:56:08 PM
by partido3619463 on 9/29/2021, 1:42:29 PM
Feels like onus should be on phone manufacturers to ensure new OS updates work on old hardware.
Instead, Xiaomi should release an operating system update. iOS 15 is compatible back to 6s (released in 2015), tho even 6 years of support seems short.
If you want to “BuyItForLife”, perhaps buy from a phone manufacturer committed to supporting OS updates for your phone.
What’s going on with Android ecosystem that old phone support is hard?
by mikewarot on 9/29/2021, 4:05:10 PM
I expect the pushback on this to force change in how we deal with source code ownership and maintenance of software.
It would be nice if it didn't involve the government, but I fear it's going to end up as the necessary evil.
It's not just a Slack issue, it's a general thing.
This puts the finger on one of the main reasons that I'm very concerned about the general state of software engineering these days. It's a lack of quality and stability.
Well, that's a little unfair. It's really that the industry is making a fundamental engineering tradeoff that I think is a terrible mistake: prioritizing rapid adaptation over robustness. We as an industry have decided that software should be ephemeral and disposable.
There are arguments for why that's a good tradeoff. We've been hearing them for years, and I was reasonably on board with the notion at the start (at least for some use cases). But I think that now that we've had experience with the results, my opinion has changed. I no longer think that the tradeoff is the best one.