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All smart TVs these days are updatable. My Nest thermostat is updatable. I don't have to do a thing for it to update. I would bet my Smart washing machine wil

• kuschku 11y ago
  And we see how well this updating works with the "agile" developed Android... Not. A phone has a lifetime of over 5 years, but support is dropped before the legal minimum support of 2 years, even for Nexus.[1] A device like a Thermostat shouldn’t even ever need updating. Everything it should do is record, transmit, and accept settings for temperature. Everything intelligent should be in a separate device. It’s like we’re learning to separate the world into microchips and the interfacing processors all over again. Also, I argued this before, if people can’t even update their game consoles or are still running Vista SP0 this month then they sure as hell won’t update their Smart Washing Machine. You’re maybe living in Silicon Valley and all around these shiny new toys, but reality is that people are still using fax. ---------------- [1] By the way, this opens an interesting legal opportunity, I need to get updates for my Nexus device, as it’s less than 2 years old, and the vulnerability is a manufacturers defect.