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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/06/2014 02:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt
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<pre wrap="">Diego Iastrubni <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:elcuco@kde.org"><elcuco@kde.org></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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.]
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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.<br>
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Michael<br>
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