However, EU regulation introduced in June 2025 requires that all smartphones sold on the European market receive software updates for a long time. The directive does not specify a minimum price for this rule to take effect. The EU explicitly states that software updates must be available for five years after a device is no longer sold.
Motorola’s lawyers have apparently studied that legal text closely, and now the company appears to be ready to confront the EU Commission. Their interpretation is that the EU does not actually require updates to be provided at all, but only requires that if updates are offered, they must be free of charge. However, we are not aware of any case in which a smartphone manufacturer has ever charged money for security patches.
There’s a serious disingenuity in how Apple and its cult always claims to be best in security updates. That security patch could be anything from a system kernel patch, fixing the mail app or just a browser update which is done via the play store services in Android ecosystem. And you don’t know shit about what update is what because it isn’t open-source and you have to just believe whatever Apple tells you. Like theyll call it the “best security update yet”, and typical for a cult, everyone claps.
Yes, you have to get a system patch to get a browser update on iOS, and are 0-day vulnerable until daddy Apple sends a system patch whenever it feels like it. Fanboys then eat it up like Apple is so good with longetivity of their devices.
I still have android devices older than iPad 2 that still work with some FOSS apps. But when you bring up you can install apps outside the play store, all fanboys get their panties twisted and start pointing out sideloading is not common and it’s not secure. Then why the hell is Google trying so hard to patch it?
But also every time iOS or Mac vulnerability comes up they go hush and try to bury the news. Like how they bend over backwards for China and dine with dictators in Saudi Arabia (See how a cult handles criticism? they locked the thread). But No, that level of encroachment won’t happen to you tho, because Apple told you so?
Take that marketing talking point somewhere else.