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What if they are ok with this? What if the device vendors use this lack of stable ABI to put an expiration date on their products? Android phones don't get mor
by hs86 7y ago
What if they are ok with this? What if the device vendors use this lack of stable ABI to put an expiration date on their products?
Android phones don't get more than 3 years of support and my fear/tinfoil theory is that the vendors abuse the good intention of the kernel devs to deprecate old devices faster.
- matheusmoreira 7y agoManufacturers already do this, stable ABI or not. They can release drivers for a specific operating system and processor architecture. When those change and the driver breaks, they aren't going to spend time and money updating the driver for an old product they aren't even selling anymore. They'll just tell people to buy their new product instead.