[HN Gopher] Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and part...
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       Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
        
       Author : DocFeind
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2021-09-05 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (appleinsider.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (appleinsider.com)
        
       | _Microft wrote:
       | This is not limited to Apple but would apply to all smartphone
       | producers. I would even say that Apple has to be a lot less
       | concerned (about the update rule at least) than manufacturers of
       | Android phones. Those are outright terrible in that regard. The
       | oldest iPhone model that will get the iOS 15 update will be the
       | iPhone 6s and it was launched back in 2015 already.
        
         | m-p-3 wrote:
         | So Apple is already there, hopefully the other smartphone
         | manufacturers will follow, even if that means cutting down on
         | the amount of models they release every year.
        
           | pjmlp wrote:
           | On the early Android years I followed with interest what each
           | Google IO brought.
           | 
           | Nowadays I don't care.
           | 
           | Android Java is still cherry picking whatever Google feels
           | like, NDK offers enough for multimedia stuff and mobile
           | Chrome brings enough updates for mobile Web, and most apps
           | are anyway doable as Web sites.
           | 
           | Most OS updates from last years seem just being updates for
           | the sake of forcing everyone to update which APIs they are
           | using on their apps anyway.
        
       | aitchnyu wrote:
       | Would they still allow telcos to shut down 3g infra like other
       | countries? That would make 3g-only devices much worse.
       | 
       | And is there any chance they will require phones to inform they
       | have a failed battery? I know people say their phones are slow,
       | overheat and drain fast so they need an entire new phone.
        
         | hexa22 wrote:
         | Given that 2012-2013 was the year of 4G. I doubt that law would
         | relate much to 3G phones.
        
       | pjmlp wrote:
       | Looking forward to see this approved, given that Google isn't
       | doing this even for Pixels.
        
         | yladiz wrote:
         | I think no manufacturer is except basically Apple, since
         | they've been doing updates for 5 or 6(?) years now (I believe
         | the 6S was updated for iOS 14).
        
           | hexa22 wrote:
           | The iPhones are currently at 6 years and the iPads at 7 (and
           | counting)
        
       | Wowfunhappy wrote:
       | This all strikes me as overwhelmingly reasonable, and in fact I
       | think security patches ought to be mandated for at least _ten_
       | years.
       | 
       | Such a law would likely affect Android phone manufacturers much
       | more than Apple, however.
        
         | hexa22 wrote:
         | It's so reasonable that Apple has already reached that level.
         | My iPad Air 2 from 2014 is on iPadOS 15 right now and it works
         | well.
         | 
         | This will hit android OEMs hard if it is implemented.
        
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