Nexus 9 will be end-of-life next month so this is the final guaranteed security update: https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/914979923802062848 …. Once Google stops doing factory image releases, full security updates won't be possible since there won't be updated drivers and firmware anymore, only AOSP patches.
Even now that the Linux Foundation has been paid off to do 6 year LTS, that's still grossly insufficient.
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This model of kicking out hardware that's going to be dead & useless in a couple years is poisonous, to consumers & this planet (e-waste).
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https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/drivers/index.html … is what they're doing for embedded but the mobile mess is too deep. Remains to be seen how much adoption Android Things gets vs unmaintained Android / Linux forks anyway.
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