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Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/445850

Microsoft is done supporting the original Surface Duo, three years after it first launched on September 10. The company has stated from the very start that the Surface Duo would receive just three years of OS updates, meaning today is the last day that Microsoft has to stay true to its word.

Going forward, Microsoft will no longer ship new OS updates or security patches for the original Surface Duo, meaning Android 12L is the last version of the OS it will ever officially receive. Surface Duo only ever got two major OS updates, one shy of the average three that most high-end flagship Android devices get these days.

Like I said before, I will never stop making fun of the Juicero of Android phones.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

6 years + 2-3 more years of security updates is a pretty good support cycle for a phone.

Complaining that the company that provides some of (if not the best) support for their phones is pretty silly. Especially considering that Google, androids gold standard is ~~a year~~ three years less than that.

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

Is it silly, though? Phones are essentially supercomputers at this point. It's hardly excusable that companies can't provide longer support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've always been computers. They just need to do different tasks than a computer would.

The phones OS is basically a firmware with how tightly integrated it is with the hardware. VS the EFI on your PC just hands everything off to windows and then it's up to drivers which may or may not be there after a major version update.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't have to explain to me how an electronic or digital phone works, but I appreciate the comment regardless.

And to be very technical: No, phones have not always been computers. I can't do Turing-complete work with a rotary phone from the 70s.