So Google's top-notch $649 phone will only get security updates for 3 years after its launch?
https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/858033591430807553 …
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The reason they don't do this is probably at least as much commercial as technical: distinguishing new products via software. :-(
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I suspect commercial > technical even :/
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Yes. They really don't want "all phones are the same except for cpu speed, ram, storage, camera, screen".
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Same way cable/telco doesn't want "all lines are the same except Gbit/sec and ping".
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in a really narrow minded commercial view, I mean, there's tech support, extra services that also add value to their offer
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But they'd rather compete over stupid things like exclusive or preferential-treatment content rather than quality of service/support.
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Nobody actually wants to compete over the quality of their product or service anymore, because superficial crap is cheaper to compete on.
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...and if (2) they insisted all SoC drivers be written properly & upstreamable so they wouldn't be stuck with abandoned kernel forks.
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And the reason they don't do this is largely the fault of Linux's awful monolithic design wrt drivers. :-(
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