You're right and not all manufacturers will produce high quality devices or continue to support them. So in a market where some devices are high quality and so

You're right and not all manufacturers will produce high quality devices or continue to support them. So in a market where some devices are high quality and some of those are well supported, how does a customer differentiate between high quality and low quality? Or well support and not well supported? The best strategy for a consumer is to buy a cheap device that meets their needs and if it doesn't then it was cheap enough that they can replace it.