Yeah, got that a lot on Android as well. "This application is no longer supported" and "You need to update to version xxxx to continue using this service."
The only thing left running on my Android device was an application I wrote, some games, and some back-end utilities that modified the rooted system. Everything else was dead. Couldn't even browse the internet anymore because of the certificate expiration and no new cert package.
RIP my poor MotoG. Your battery was dead but you fought until the end, the end being one year after you were made and forgotten about by your manufacturer.
Mobile phones could be used for decades if it wasn't for these companies who are only about making more profit to please their shareholders. The problem is they push for software updates because the hardware quality has reached a level where it's hard for phones to break or become faulty on their own. Most damages happen when they are dropped (hard floor). Even water isn't an issue anymore.
The phone itself probably would have continued working fine, but my biggest issue was that application vendors just stopped supporting the version of Android I had. I assume some of that was due to taking advantage of newer features in updated versions of Android, but some of it was due to the vendor's "THIS ISN'T SAFE ANYMORE REEEEEEE" mentality. To be fair, I could have updated to 5.0 but 5 was a turd.
I was running up against the battery dying after 8 years, the 4.x cert expiration, and the old non-VoLTE network sunsets. Only third-party batteries, and none of those worked, the other two issues weren't solvable by me because the technology no longer existed.
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