Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence
a end to planned obsolescence would be open sourcing the hardware drivers at the end of support, or the government requiring the driver code be released.
The same for unlocked bootloaders, etc
Thanks Fairphone once again <3
You can provide software updates while still having planned obsolescence.
Yup look at apple, they gimped their devices because the battery was shit.
Why are we still relying on manufacturers for software updates?
I know there’s driver issues, but I’m pretty sure google could engineer android to at least allow direct security updates within the same android version. Google play services still provides updates for android 5. Even Yocto linux has opkg for updates.
It’s all based on Qualcomm drivers if I remember correctly. If Qualcomm doesn’t update the drivers then they can’t update the phones to the newest version. Maybe since Samsung and google make their own processors now they can guarantee longer updates? Also for Linux PCs it all uses x86 so maybe that’s why it can be supported longer without the need for manufacturers’ drivers updates?
AFAIK it’s just Samsung and Google. No one else cares.
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