It doesn’t because you run out of security updates after 5 to 6 years. Which I hate. But nowadays switching to android alternatives is an option once a phone is no longer supported.
Or Apple which is surprisingly good in that department, my sister’s iphone 11 is still receiving updates.
As much as I detest Apple, they do work really well as work phones. My work phone is an iPhone 12. Outside of the somewhat degraded battery life because it’s 5 years old, it still works flawlessly.
That said, I haven’t updated it to iOS 26 yet, even though it’s available. My wife’s 16PM is running iOS 26 and she is not happy with the “upgrade”.
My last phone upgrade was in part because my previous phone didn’t have NFC, which is a significant technology nowadays. I wonder what’s going to motivate my next one, if it’s gonna be general performance, software support, or some hardware feature (like wifi… was it 7? That allocates a separate band for each device, so it doesn’t shit itself when you use more than 1 device in a large area).
It doesn’t because you run out of security updates after 5 to 6 years. Which I hate. But nowadays switching to android alternatives is an option once a phone is no longer supported.
Or Apple which is surprisingly good in that department, my sister’s iphone 11 is still receiving updates.
I would install Lineage on day 1
As much as I detest Apple, they do work really well as work phones. My work phone is an iPhone 12. Outside of the somewhat degraded battery life because it’s 5 years old, it still works flawlessly.
That said, I haven’t updated it to iOS 26 yet, even though it’s available. My wife’s 16PM is running iOS 26 and she is not happy with the “upgrade”.
It didn’t have to be this way. I can run modern Linux on 20+ year old PCs.
My last phone upgrade was in part because my previous phone didn’t have NFC, which is a significant technology nowadays. I wonder what’s going to motivate my next one, if it’s gonna be general performance, software support, or some hardware feature (like wifi… was it 7? That allocates a separate band for each device, so it doesn’t shit itself when you use more than 1 device in a large area).