Why shouldn’t it, after all, be expensive to be poor?
This is a great time for people in the position to learn it if they haven’t. Growing up in the Midwest taught me this, that it’s better to spend more on something that will last longer. Don’t spend $50 on boots that will only last a year. Spend $100 on the boots that will last 5 years.
Tech isn’t advancing at the same pace, we need to treat it the same way. I encourage everyone to do research and wait, save, and buy something that will last 5 years, and not reward Motorola for this.
This assumes that someone has the extra $50 to spend. Usually people buy the cheap boots because they don’t.
Don’t spend $50 on boots that will only last a year. Spend $100 on the boots that will last 5 years.
If I can put LineageOS on it, I wouldn’t throw a fit about that. I’ve had several Moto G phones in the past, and they’re not bad for what they cost. But I’ve always put lineage on them.
Oh lawdy, a budget phone shipping with an OS SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS out of date at time of publication. Will the horrors ever end!?
Quick, someone bring me my fainting chair!
Well it would be fine if they actually planned to provide updates
People need to stop buying this e-waste.
The phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.
5 years in the EU
If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.
Other than avoiding ecosystem fragmentation, I’m not seeing tangible benefits of running the latest android.
If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.
It precisely means that is not going to be the case.
