<story><title>Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-to-dump-a-perfectly-good-phone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>Honestly, Google needs really needs to do better.  Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;22295639&amp;#x2F;samsung-galaxy-device-2019-four-years-security-updates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;22295639&amp;#x2F;samsung-galaxy-d...&lt;/a&gt;.  And frankly, how hard&amp;#x2F;expensive would it be to support these devices for &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; longer? Google is a massive company, and I see little reason why that can&amp;#x27;t employ a team of devs backporting patches to older phones. Current versions of Windows and Linux run happily on decades-old hardware, so a phone should at least be able to get patches for known security issues for a decade.  Dev resources would be far better spent on this than yet another hamfisted attempt to build a messenger app that they&amp;#x27;ll kill in a couple years anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t-writescode</author><text>&amp;gt;  Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches&lt;p&gt;For all its warts, Apple set the bar and Android as a whole has never really reached it. The 6S is still supported right now, right? And we&amp;#x27;re on the 13?</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-to-dump-a-perfectly-good-phone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>Honestly, Google needs really needs to do better.  Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;22295639&amp;#x2F;samsung-galaxy-device-2019-four-years-security-updates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;22295639&amp;#x2F;samsung-galaxy-d...&lt;/a&gt;.  And frankly, how hard&amp;#x2F;expensive would it be to support these devices for &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; longer? Google is a massive company, and I see little reason why that can&amp;#x27;t employ a team of devs backporting patches to older phones. Current versions of Windows and Linux run happily on decades-old hardware, so a phone should at least be able to get patches for known security issues for a decade.  Dev resources would be far better spent on this than yet another hamfisted attempt to build a messenger app that they&amp;#x27;ll kill in a couple years anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boudin</author><text>I really hope there would be some regulations enforcing a decade of software support, not just for the operating system but also to provide drivers for hardware. After that, having to continue providing support or provide the source code with a permissive license and documentation.</text></comment>