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[Makurian]

bassmadrigal, on 17 November 2011 - 05:48 PM, said:

Well, then expect to be stuck with Windows XP while the rest of the world runs Windows 7 and later...

Which isn't much of a problem if apps are still working on my N1.

bassmadrigal, on 17 November 2011 - 05:48 PM, said:

Hopefully CM can get ICS working on our N1s (I remember reading that minimum RAM required was only 256MB), but I doubt the CM team will be able to continue giving updates to the N1 all the way through 2015.

As long as ICS apps, except the heavily graphics ones and games, are still compatible with N1 it won't be a problem.

bassmadrigal, on 17 November 2011 - 05:48 PM, said:

And I had the w810, which I then upgraded to the w595 (assuming I remember my model numbers correctly). There were many things the newer phone could do that the older one couldn't. And how many updates did you get for your phone over the time you owned it? There were some glaring bugs with both that caused me quite a bit of grief. The biggest was on the w595, where it would stop reading the memory stick (where I had some apps stored) and then those apps would stop functioning unless I removed and reinserted the memory card. That also sucked, because my ringers were stored on the sdcard as well. Google has already provided at least 10x the support either of those phones ever received from Sony Ericsson.

I received only one update, but my W810i was like a great calculator and organizer, but my N1 is like a computer in my pocket.

By 2015 I will get a new job and maybe new monies

[bassmadrigal]

It seems you were all pissed at google for not providing an update to ICS for the N1, but your last post makes it seem as long as your phone continues to work (which it obviously will), then you have no problems with it.

And with the way the Android Market works, you won't even see apps that aren't compatible with your version of Android, so any ICS-only apps, won't even show up.

And I am sure a lot of the Google apps will be redone to utilize the new API that was introduced with ICS. As such, those newer versions will be incompatible with older versions of Android. But it will probably be a bit before we start seeing any decent amount of apps require ICS as the lowest version, so you will be able to run most apps on your phone for at least a few more years. I don't even think there are that many apps that require Froyo. And that release is over a year old (and I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of phones are running 2.2 or better).

Just because there is a new version of Android available, doesn't mean that older software is now obsolete. Sure, it may not be the latest and greatest, but Windows XP will still run the majority of the apps that Windows 7 does. The same goes for Android. Once you hit 18 months, google isn't going to magically make your phone a brick, they just aren't guaranteeing any updates to the base software.

[Makurian]

bassmadrigal, on 17 November 2011 - 08:50 PM, said:

It seems you were all pissed at google for not providing an update to ICS for the N1, but your last post makes it seem as long as your phone continues to work (which it obviously will), then you have no problems with it.

And with the way the Android Market works, you won't even see apps that aren't compatible with your version of Android, so any ICS-only apps, won't even show up.

And I am sure a lot of the Google apps will be redone to utilize the new API that was introduced with ICS. As such, those newer versions will be incompatible with older versions of Android. But it will probably be a bit before we start seeing any decent amount of apps require ICS as the lowest version, so you will be able to run most apps on your phone for at least a few more years. I don't even think there are that many apps that require Froyo. And that release is over a year old (and I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of phones are running 2.2 or better).

Just because there is a new version of Android available, doesn't mean that older software is now obsolete. Sure, it may not be the latest and greatest, but Windows XP will still run the majority of the apps that Windows 7 does. The same goes for Android. Once you hit 18 months, google isn't going to magically make your phone a brick, they just aren't guaranteeing any updates to the base software.

The moral of the this whole thread seems to be that I need to go full on retard on my efforts to learn programming.

Edited by Makurian, 17 November 2011 - 09:08 PM.

[avgjoemomma]

Makurian, on 17 November 2011 - 09:07 PM, said:

The moral of the this whole thread seems to be that I need to go full on retard on my efforts to learn programming.

or get an iPhone!  SLAM

[Makurian]

avgjoemomma, on 18 November 2011 - 09:00 AM, said:

or get an iPhone!  SLAM

Not even if Kim Kardashian and the an edition encyclopedia of sodomy was part of the package  

[Unreasnbl]

I see the logic. If you become retarded, get an iPhone.