2025-10-15 14:57 UTC
@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social We are encouraged to dump our phone every time Apple or Samsung comes out with a newer model with some feature which is also but an enviornmental disaster, but I haven't seen the same amount of words typed about that as I have this whole Windows 10 thing, and it's been 10 years since that OS came out. Do you write the same type of story each time a new iPhone comes out?
Trying not to sound like a Microsoft apologist
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@sy@mastodon.nz 2025-10-16 01:09
@jjesse@infosec.exchange @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social The correct analogy would be if Apple and Samsung decided to cut off security updates for old devices to try and force people to upgrade their phones. Don't get me wrong, the annual upgrade cycle and the perceived obsolescence it propagates is bad... But refusing to fix critical security vulnerabilities for hundreds of millions of computers in the hope that those people will upgrade to Windows 11 is far worse. And remember, Win10 was advertised as 'the last version of windows' by Microsoft a decade ago, so people bought it expecting it to continue to be updated. https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows