Early in 2024, I bought a Galaxy A15 because it was among the smallest phones I could find (which isnt saying much, as it's still unnecessarily large), has a headphone jack, good battery life, was extremely affordable on Ebay, and would be updated for at least five years. At that time, I had only used Android for a few months and liked it. I had no idea of the rift between Google and Samsung. Even if I had, I needed the headphone jack, and I wasn't about to pay hundreds of dollars for a phone, unless it was small and had a built-in keyboard. Today, I read this. It is concerning, even for those of us who don't normally use artificial intelligence and who don't rely on our phones for everything. It's also why I like systems such as Windows, where features don't depend on which device you use or who manufactured it. Plus, once you have the .exe or .zip file for a program, the odds are it will continue to work on your computer, unless ou update it. No one can remove it from your machine, and you can use older versions of the operating system for years without any problems.

Regardless, I don't like how accessibility is basically being used by Google and Samsung as a marketing tool, with no one caring about real results. Who's to say that this won't continue, and that truly important updates won't make it to older or cheaper phones?

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