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it is a bad incentive loop. - people change phones every year or two. - OSS community can't keep up with driver support if they change every 6mo and are never
by gcb0 9y ago
it is a bad incentive loop.
- people change phones every year or two.
- OSS community can't keep up with driver support if they change every 6mo and are never documented, protected with NDA.
- big companies writing the OS make the older hardware obsolete on purpose.
- this forces people that don't want to change phones every year to do so. Back to step 1.
- voltagex_ 9y ago>- OSS community can't keep up with driver support if they change every 6mo and are never documented, protected with NDA. LineageOS seems to be doing OK (other than the terrible name). > - big companies writing the OS make the older hardware obsolete on purpose. Not writing the OS, writing the drivers and platform support (also known as the Board Support Package). I can't find the article, but at some point there was a "cut-off" for devices like the Nexus 4, largely because Qualcomm didn't provide further updates.
- gcb0 9y agocorrect me if I am wrong but lineageOS/cyanogenMod only uses extracted binary drivers from the manufacturer.