Hacker News Reader

Comment by kalleboo | Hacker News Reader

One important difference to note. Google's policy is 6.5 years after "first device on the platform is released". Apple's policy is after last manufactured.

The Apple policy also only explicitly applies to hardware (repair parts), although software often falls not far behind (maybe supported for a year or two longer)

View on HN

Yeah this. I bought a Nexus 6p on sale, just over a year after it was released. This meant it was less than two years before it was no longer supported. The battery was replaced twice and was junk anyway. Good riddance.

My Nexus 6p worked pretty well except had to do a battery replacement once after which the battery life remained excellent. After nearly 3 years of usage, dropped it and shattered the glass. Tried several places for a replacement screen but the feedback everywhere was "parts no longer available". The phone works perfectly otherwise and I had no intention of getting a new one soon. Finally gave up and bought a Oneplus 6.

This kind of forced phasing out of devices is really unfortunate.

This is eerily similar to my experience. I absolutely love my OnePlus 6. 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB storage is phenomenal, and double the resources of the pixel 3

Random question about OnePlus since I'm seeing it in a Linux conversation... do you happen to use Termux? If so do you happen to know how to run a daemon (e.g. SSH) without getting choked by BgDetect every few minutes?

Yeah I do run termux, but I don't run an SSH daemon anymore (mostly because of issues like that). I just plug in the USB cable and run `adb shell` whenever I need a shell on the phone.

Performance for file transfers is also way faster and more reliable using `adb pull /sdcard/DCIM ./` than with `scp -r phone:/sdcard/DCIM/ ./`

I use termux mostly just run my own ruby scripts or SSH to cloud servers and stuff.

Mind if I ask where the conversation is? (if it's public). That sounds like something I'd enjoy :-)

Oh, I was just referring to this post, which is about putting Linux on devices meant for other OSes. :-)

Ah I see. Yeah I use USB when I need to, but I neither always have enough data to warrant the speed (often just a handful of pics...), nor is it true that I only want SSH for file transfer. =P

Your question was not directed towards me but would like to add that for synhing media between phone and computer, Syncthing[0] has been great for me. Once setup, no manual steps are required anymore - everything syncs automatically.

[0]: https://syncthing.net/

The only good deal I got on Amazon was for 8GB/128GB storage - still have about 70GB left after having copied all my media over from the Nexus 6p. I think I'll be ready for a replacement by the time I get near filling that 70GB up.

You can still find parts on ebay for the 6p. And there are youtube videos on how to do the replacement, but it's not something I'd do myself.

Still rocking my Nexus 5X and will continue to do so until it physically dies. LineageOS works spectacularly and I still get Android updates faster than most flagships.

I still use a Nexus 5.

I think I like the Nokia 6 (not the more recent models) as a replacement.

It will sadly have to be replaced at some point.

Another important difference: you can still install linux on a macbook after it is EOL'd by Apple. HArdware support is poor but the machine can still have an OS patched on a regular basis.

And it is worth noting that the 2012 13" MacBook Pro (non-retina, the last upgradeable MacBook) was sold by Apple at least until 2017, so it should be supported until 2024.

Sold? Or manufactured?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com