[BlindTlk] motorola update policy adverse to users

[Ericka]

That’s too much for all the problems it seems to have. Who would get one?

Ericka Nelson

> On Apr 25, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Motorola just released a flagship phone costing $999 this week.
> The problem with that phone and my guess is all other motorola phones is
> that those phones will get one operating system update during their
> lifetimes.  After that if you want another operating system update, you
> have to root the phone and install it or find someone you pay and trust to
> do it for you.
> I have a moto G7 and expected it would get android 10 on it by the end of
> 2019 but that hasn't happened yet.
> This is adverse to users from a security standpoint since operating
> systems have been and can be hacked beyond any ability to prevent those
> hacks with any patches to existing operating systems.
> Several operating system kernels on several commercial distributions of
> software some of them proprietary have long-standing well documented
> problems of this nature.
> Until such time as Motorola's operating system updates policy improves I
> don't recommend buying any of that hardware or replacing existing hardware
> with more motorola hardware.
> 
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