The Conversation

why you may have to buy a new device whether you want to or not

Written by Michael Cowling, Associate Professor - Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia

The Conversation, CC BY

We’ve probably all been there. We buy some new smart gadget and when we plug it in for the first time it requires an update to work.

So we end up spending hours downloading and updating before we can even play with our new toy.

But what happens when we can’t update our gadgets any further?

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