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Samsung won't have to patch your old phones, court rules
https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-wont-have-to-patch-your-old-phones-court-rules
The fight to get better phone security seems to be a losing battle, quite literally, with a Dutch court ruling that Samsung isn’t obliged to patch its older phones.
While Google dishes out software updates for Android on a regular basis, it passes them on to the phone manufacturers for distribution to users. Samsung – like most other manufacturers – chooses if and when it wants to roll out those patches.
Samsung won't have to patch your old phones, court rules
Jun 1, 2018, 2:15am UTC
https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-wont-have-to-patch-your-old-phones-court-rules
> The fight to get better phone security seems to be a losing battle, quite literally, with a Dutch court ruling that Samsung isn’t obliged to patch its older phones.
> While Google dishes out software updates for Android on a regular basis, it passes them on to the phone manufacturers for distribution to users. Samsung – like most other manufacturers – chooses if and when it wants to roll out those patches.