Hundreds of thousands of phones that are past their last security updates run fine. I don't install random apps or from third party websites. This phone along with last year's phone as well as the year before is rootable. If you care about security that much, you can install an updated vanilla android OS. If you're that scared about security, uninstall all third party apps. You still receive project mainline security updates.
About 75% of the current android version market share is Android 11.0 and lower. Android 11 came out in 2021. What's wasteful is thinking you have to throw away a phone because it won't receive security updates. You absolutely should not scrap phones like this.
Android 10 itself is technically still supported with security updates, so nothing wrong with it, if the device manifacturers support the kernel, drivers and firmware blobs... You not caring about those security fixes means you don't use video hardware acceleration, no Bluetooth, cellular, wifi, or any kernel features? It totally agree, of course those old^H^H^H quite new phones shouldn't be scrapped, they should be supported by the manufacturers for, like, 10 years. Instead of buying deprecated-by-design electronic waste, we should just boycott them in the first place and support decent manufacturers instead. In the case of Sony, this will solve itself as it looks like they will give up making phones any time soon.
Me not caring about security fixes means I will continue to use those features without worrying about potential exploits. Video formats aren't going to suddenly change. Apps will still get updated, the system framework will still get updated.
In all my life, I have not once seen an android phone actually exploited. I have read about a lot of them online. But I haven't seen an exploited phone in person. Other than exploits that I have used to gain root access on devices, which all require physical access. Around 18 percent of the current android market share is made up of devices running Android 9 and earlier. Android has 3 billion active devices according to the most recent Google I/O. That's 600 million devices. I imagine I will be fine for the next 4 to 5 years regardless of the security update situation.
I will support phone manufacturers that have proper hardware, like a headphone jack and sd card slot over manufacturers that promise security updates every single time. I will continue to boycott phones that don't have a headphone jack. I will not make my current technology deprecated by design in order to have a supposedly flagship phone/device. We should support decent companies like Sony that don't remove useful features in order to create new revenue streams. I have really nice headphones, any phone manufacturer that removed the headphone jack is encouraging me to generate e-waste in order to use their product.
Right now is a terrible time to judge a phone company, the chip shortage hasn't gone anywhere, international markets are still heavily limited. Sony doesn't seem to be looking into becoming a replacement for LG, it seems to be happy existing in its current niche. The advances in camera technology engineered into Sony phones show it does not plan on going anywhere. I will be very disappointed if Sony leaves the phone business.
There are interesting phone manufacturers that I would like to buy a phone from, but they have essentially zero presence in the US.
About 75% of the current android version market share is Android 11.0 and lower. Android 11 came out in 2021. What's wasteful is thinking you have to throw away a phone because it won't receive security updates. You absolutely should not scrap phones like this.