I just wish these companies had licenses that would force them to release their sources after X many years, so that people can repurpose these "old" (but still usable) devices.

Take a kindle for example; an e-ink device that runs linux, has wifi, can survive a whole month without charge and displays whatever you want... but its hard to repurposed them for any of that because Amazon makes it extremely difficult to get into the device... just so that people will buy new kindles....

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~canaryjacket wrote:

I agree, this Mini is stuck on iOS 12 and it's usefulness will diminish as Apple and third-party developers move on to newer, shinier things.

~eaplmx wrote (thread):

Yep, it's sad to watch the lifetime of some devices and even planned obsolescence.

I was looking to jailbreak my Kindle and it updated a few months ago, damn, forgot to keep the Airplane mode. Lastly we are lazy and prefer to buy a newer device since it's 'easy' to spend more money 💵