..."Oh nos, obsolete device, so sad, too bad, but ya gotta buy a new phone :-$ " narrative/bandwagon, what are you all going to do with your s5 devices? This strategically kills official support for the S5 and provides an equally strategic excuse to officially stop providing security patches as well. It's interesting timing given the pressure that these manufacturers have been under as a result of governments recently getting involved and asking questions about the obtuse rejection of support and security maintenance on anything they sell that is more than a couple of dozen months old. But I digress with regard to the latter. That's another discussion completely.
I'm really annoyed by this, though. It seems so strategic and coercive. I really feel like I'm being run through the wringer by android peddlers. It's always something. And it's a repetitive cycle of the same BS all of the time. It seems like there is always some timely excuse to continue strongarming technology to keep people buying shiny new thousand dollar phones every 24 months. And every single time I read an article about these practices it always falls back to the drones ppping off the same old line about "oh well, the phone is over the two year period." That's such a lame, market trained, tech media driven, narrative. And that narrative is a large reason that these companies get away with these practices because people eat it up like candy as if it's legit. This 2 year myth is, in my view, a BS trained narrative that has been popularized as a result of carrier contracts that run 24 months. It's like consumers are systematically being trained into sheep that just repeat this BS narrative and accept it as logical when it isn't logical at all. And consumers themselves are all too willing to help run interference for them. Ever read some of the comments in android articles? The comments are ridiculous. It's like romper room reading through comments. Every single time, the story gets buried and the comments degrade into a bunch of redundant fanboy spew back and forth about nothing meaningful at all. That's the trained mindset that these manufacturers and carriers bank on. They bank on the sheep mentality. They bank on useful idiots with keyboards reciting the tried and true 2 year narrative in order to justify the strongarming of technology to manipulate people into forking over anothe grand every couple of dozen months. There is absolutely no reason that this chip can't be updated. None. It's just that they don't want to do it. Which puts them into the same manipulative category as the carriers and manufacturers.
I was thinking about rooting but I can't use Android Pay if I do that as far as I know. And I'm not sure what else won't work. Those mods seem glitchy, too. But I'm not forking ove close to another thousand dollars to these people based on moral principle alone. I'm tired of it. They're getting way too comfortable with doing this to people. I'm not a fan of regulation at all but that might be the only way to get these practices under control. Just go full blown socialist on these mofos. Heh.
Seems like this Qualcomm decision is also going to effectively provide another reason for these phone makers to not provide regular security updates on top of the BS 2 year service narrative that editors and carriers have painted into the minds of sheep.
I don't know. I guess this is more of a vent post but I'm just so tired of this constant rotation of the same BS every 2 years just to cop out of servicing and updating what remain very, very capable devices.
I, for one, am just completely sick of it. I'm just not doing it anymore. This routine is getting old fast. I'm tired of Google. I'm tired of carriers. I'm tired of manufacturers. And I'm tired of tech media and useful idiots with trained sheep mentalities in the comments section running interference for them. And now I'm tired of chip makers who are getting in on the gig. Seems like it's just all one big charade and an endless rotation of circle jerkery just to force people to fork over a thousand bucks every 24 months.
Anyway, Sorry for the rant. But, I, for one, have some immediate decisions to make. And as much as I don't like the way iphones are made, that will likely be the course I take. I'm just fed up with Google and all that comes with having any part of it. Seems like it's just one big game of manipulation of both consumers and technology itself.
I do have an iphone 5S that I took out of my drawer and charged today. It immediately updated upon turning it on. I may just get a nano sim and transfer my data over from my micro sim that's in the S5 and be done with android forever. I'm just tired of this bull.
Certainly, many won't like my words here. But guess what. I really don't care. Someone has to speak up and tell it like it really is. And I'm not seeing too much of that these days.
As always, it's the same deceptive, circular, blame game played out just to get around their own BS...
Why Android 7.0 won't officially come to Snapdragon 800/801
I'm really annoyed by this, though. It seems so strategic and coercive. I really feel like I'm being run through the wringer by android peddlers. It's always something. And it's a repetitive cycle of the same BS all of the time. It seems like there is always some timely excuse to continue strongarming technology to keep people buying shiny new thousand dollar phones every 24 months. And every single time I read an article about these practices it always falls back to the drones ppping off the same old line about "oh well, the phone is over the two year period." That's such a lame, market trained, tech media driven, narrative. And that narrative is a large reason that these companies get away with these practices because people eat it up like candy as if it's legit. This 2 year myth is, in my view, a BS trained narrative that has been popularized as a result of carrier contracts that run 24 months. It's like consumers are systematically being trained into sheep that just repeat this BS narrative and accept it as logical when it isn't logical at all. And consumers themselves are all too willing to help run interference for them. Ever read some of the comments in android articles? The comments are ridiculous. It's like romper room reading through comments. Every single time, the story gets buried and the comments degrade into a bunch of redundant fanboy spew back and forth about nothing meaningful at all. That's the trained mindset that these manufacturers and carriers bank on. They bank on the sheep mentality. They bank on useful idiots with keyboards reciting the tried and true 2 year narrative in order to justify the strongarming of technology to manipulate people into forking over anothe grand every couple of dozen months. There is absolutely no reason that this chip can't be updated. None. It's just that they don't want to do it. Which puts them into the same manipulative category as the carriers and manufacturers.
I was thinking about rooting but I can't use Android Pay if I do that as far as I know. And I'm not sure what else won't work. Those mods seem glitchy, too. But I'm not forking ove close to another thousand dollars to these people based on moral principle alone. I'm tired of it. They're getting way too comfortable with doing this to people. I'm not a fan of regulation at all but that might be the only way to get these practices under control. Just go full blown socialist on these mofos. Heh.
Seems like this Qualcomm decision is also going to effectively provide another reason for these phone makers to not provide regular security updates on top of the BS 2 year service narrative that editors and carriers have painted into the minds of sheep.
I don't know. I guess this is more of a vent post but I'm just so tired of this constant rotation of the same BS every 2 years just to cop out of servicing and updating what remain very, very capable devices.
I, for one, am just completely sick of it. I'm just not doing it anymore. This routine is getting old fast. I'm tired of Google. I'm tired of carriers. I'm tired of manufacturers. And I'm tired of tech media and useful idiots with trained sheep mentalities in the comments section running interference for them. And now I'm tired of chip makers who are getting in on the gig. Seems like it's just all one big charade and an endless rotation of circle jerkery just to force people to fork over a thousand bucks every 24 months.
Anyway, Sorry for the rant. But, I, for one, have some immediate decisions to make. And as much as I don't like the way iphones are made, that will likely be the course I take. I'm just fed up with Google and all that comes with having any part of it. Seems like it's just one big game of manipulation of both consumers and technology itself.
I do have an iphone 5S that I took out of my drawer and charged today. It immediately updated upon turning it on. I may just get a nano sim and transfer my data over from my micro sim that's in the S5 and be done with android forever. I'm just tired of this bull.
Certainly, many won't like my words here. But guess what. I really don't care. Someone has to speak up and tell it like it really is. And I'm not seeing too much of that these days.
As always, it's the same deceptive, circular, blame game played out just to get around their own BS...
Why Android 7.0 won't officially come to Snapdragon 800/801
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