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2) EU politicians don't know about Android updates because they don't understand how SW works and most probably have iOS anyway. The only time they hear about tech is when some Joe Schmoe insults them on Facebook so they send the courts after Facebook to doxx that person and get Facebook to moderate and ban "hate speech" on their platform. All in a day's work.
Granted, US politicians don't understand how tech works either, judging by the senate hearing of TikTok CEO ("Mr. CEO, can TikTok access my WiFi?"), but they have a powerful local tech industry to tell politicians what they should lobby for, while the EU doesn't.
It's to do with whether Android as a platform is patching older devices.
If they aren't then it may be better for everyone that they are destroyed rather than allowing them to be compromised and exposing security risks to the user.
That wasn’t a bad or mock-worthy question at all. TikTok’s app requests access to devices on the user’s local network. Why does it do that? Officially in order to connect to TVs/speakers, but what else could it decide to do with the access it’s granted?
Of course an app that streams video over the internet can “access wifi”
The problem there isn't commercial Android phones, it's open source projects that can't guarantee anything.
Most older devices are unable to run newer apps as the newer SDKs are not present.
A lot of phone purchases anymore fall into the fashion side of consumerism. They don't actually care about X, Y or Z new features. They just want to show off that they have the new thing.
Huh?