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This is also a business model problem. Consumer hardware companies do not have the margin to make and support software that needs to run for ten years or more.
by herf 9y ago
This is also a business model problem. Consumer hardware companies do not have the margin to make and support software that needs to run for ten years or more.
Before the iPhone, software and hardware were often different and had different business models.
- Sophistifunk 9y agoThis is the big problem, and regulation can not fix it. If companies are expected to pay programmers and testers and support staff to keep their devices up-to-date, that money needs to come from somewhere, and cloud "services" that don't provide any value but exist only for MRR and lock-in are only going to result in a bigger attack surface and a bricked device when the company folds or loses interest.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThen maybe there isn't the economic case for making non-premium stuff that connects to the internet.
- dredmorbius 9y agoSo ... how do you fix, or route around, the bad business model?