Thread inspired by the following two posts in "The all-new US Politics and coronavirus thread pt. 2"
As for being "wedded" to to my seven year old phone: It works! It makes and receives calls. The MP3 player (which I use for podcasts) works. GPS works. The camera and the barcode reader app work. The sensors work. Why should I have to get a new phone to replace a device that currently does pretty much everything I want it to do?
And why is it that this technology goes stale so bloody fast? A forty year old vehicle can still fill up its tank at a gas station. Fifty year old touch tone phones still work. Seventy year old AM radios can still receive over the air broadcasts. A hundred year old clock, if maintained, will still tell the time. My mom had a kitchen scale her grandmother used; it still accurately registers 1 pound when an pound weight is placed on it.
Yet I'm "wedded" to a seven year old phone?
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Originally Posted by Blue Mountain (Post 13219207)
Link to the app on GitHub. Unfortunately it doesn't work on older versions of Android and iOS. Google Play indicates the app needs Android version 6 and up; the Apple version requires iOS 13.5 or later.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4—a perfectly serviceable device that can run a lot of Android software—but it's running Android 5, not 6. To me this is a huge problem with the Android ecosystem: the OS gets a refresh every year, but older devices don't. As time goes by the older devices get further and further behind until eventually otherwise good hardware can't run the latest software. With desktop systems this usually doesn't happen for ten to fifteen years, but with smartphones the horizon is shorter; in my case, a seven year old smartphone can't run this app. At the same time, I can connect a fifty year old touch-tone telephone to the POTS ("plain old telephone system") and it will work. (Yes, 50 year old phone; DTMF phones have been around since 1963.) |
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Originally Posted by Babbylonian (Post 13219343)
There are options for upgrading the S4 to a newer version of Android. If you’re really wedded to a 7-year-old phone, I think it’s on you to update it instead of complaining that your OS is out of date.
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And why is it that this technology goes stale so bloody fast? A forty year old vehicle can still fill up its tank at a gas station. Fifty year old touch tone phones still work. Seventy year old AM radios can still receive over the air broadcasts. A hundred year old clock, if maintained, will still tell the time. My mom had a kitchen scale her grandmother used; it still accurately registers 1 pound when an pound weight is placed on it.
Yet I'm "wedded" to a seven year old phone?
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