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   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>AJL wrote:   
      
   >>>I doubt many folks will keep a tablet or laptop for 10 years.   
      
   >>Indeed not many folks will keep a tablet or laptop for 10 years,   
      
   >I bought my tablet on 2016-08. Actually that one fell to the floor,   
   >cracked the glass and stopped responding to the finger touch; so I   
   >bought another identical one three months later. Years later a guy at a   
   >shop told me that I could still use the first one with a mouse, so I   
   >actually use both tablets.   
      
   >So not yet 10 years, but the problem is not the tablet itself, but the   
   >ancient Android that it runs. Several apps crash often on it.   
      
   This Amazon Fire HD-10 tablet I'm posting with runs an older fork of Android   
    and I occasionally have that problem. For example after using Reddit for   
    many months it suddenly quit working. So I now have to either use it in the   
    tablet browser or switch to   
   another of my toys.   
      
   >If these machines could be upgraded as computers are, the hardware is still   
   capable.   
      
   I think that is perhaps my problem. Amazon periodically updates this tablet   
    and that can break my side loaded Android apps...   
      
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