The OnePlus 12 was released less than a year ago. It has 3 1/2 years of software changes ahead of it. You are proving my point here by implying a 7 month old phone needs to be replaced after a single bad update.
I’m kinda tired of this back and forth because I never said it needs replaced. It’s an example of how manufacturers push out updates that can make your phone objectively worse at any time. Yes, they will probably fix this. If they do it again in 3 years, they might just not bother and you’re stuck on whatever they pushed out before support ended. There is no custom ROM support for this phone and no guarantee there will be.
unoptimized software starts crippling phones after 4 years
So you admit that age is not actually the relevant factor here? Your complaint is bad updates, not the age of a device. And if bad updates are the problem, which you admitted they aren’t for you when you said you’d “never used a phone long enough for this to matter” then your claim that replaceable batteries are irrelevant is also nonsensical. It’s as I suspected: you’ve concocted some weird fictional narrative as a coping mechanism for the cognitive dissonance that comes with repeatedly replacing phones that are absolutely fine.
People lie to themselves all the time to justify wasteful consumerism.
I just gave you an example of what I was talking about.
The OnePlus 12 was released less than a year ago. It has 3 1/2 years of software changes ahead of it. You are proving my point here by implying a 7 month old phone needs to be replaced after a single bad update.
I’m kinda tired of this back and forth because I never said it needs replaced. It’s an example of how manufacturers push out updates that can make your phone objectively worse at any time. Yes, they will probably fix this. If they do it again in 3 years, they might just not bother and you’re stuck on whatever they pushed out before support ended. There is no custom ROM support for this phone and no guarantee there will be.
That’s not what you said originally:
So you admit that age is not actually the relevant factor here? Your complaint is bad updates, not the age of a device. And if bad updates are the problem, which you admitted they aren’t for you when you said you’d “never used a phone long enough for this to matter” then your claim that replaceable batteries are irrelevant is also nonsensical. It’s as I suspected: you’ve concocted some weird fictional narrative as a coping mechanism for the cognitive dissonance that comes with repeatedly replacing phones that are absolutely fine.
Alright let me just fetch my Moto G4 Play with 2GB of RAM.
Nice try, but that’s a) a dogshit budget phone and b) one that is 8 years old, not 4.