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LtWorf on March 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying ...

> If they want to use an old phone, they can just stop updating their apps and not installing new apps.

Here in Sweden taxi and public transport apps need to be kept up to date or they stop working.

wruza on March 28, 2023 [–]

This. You can live without basic apps or updates. Even without twitter, in non-pathological cases. But services like taxi, banking, e-stores, delivery apps just stop working due to API changes on their side, together with OS requirements. And there may be no useful alternative (e.g. a website doesn’t cut it).

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