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Fuck features, security is the important thing here. If they are 10 (11?) months old on major systems version jumps, the fuck are they doing for monthly security patches?! A year? 18 months?
For me, the biggest drive for me when getting a phone is rapid security updates. Then, openness of the bootloader. My phone - everyone's phone - is a golden ticket to a huge trove of data about the person. Modular parts and repairability are important (and very desirable for me), but absolutely not at the cost of security.
And it's not like it's difficult to put these together. Android... 8? Set the framework for modern updates. Everything is separate and only what you need to update has to be touched, so they can be very small and quick to install. We aren't in the multi-gig full system images days, requiring full QA and deep testing anymore. Patch, ship. It's not fucking difficult!
Arghhhhh!
Wait, what does one have to do with the other? When a new Android version comes out it doesn't mean that the previous one stops getting security fixes. You can stay on a previous version and still be up to date on security.
You can, but if one isn't providing consistent and timely patches, you're not secure. And if it takes nearly a year to push a version bump, they aren't going to be on the ball with smaller fixes either.
Tell me you never had to maintain software without telling me you never had to maintain software. ๐
(It's actually opposite: If someone were slow on the smaller patches that'd bode ill for the big ones, but the opposite has no meaning)