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Do you expect security updates and updates to keep 3rd party services working to happen in perpetuity?
by pwthornton 7y ago
Do you expect security updates and updates to keep 3rd party services working to happen in perpetuity?
- wrs 7y agoWell, certainly more than five years (see below) — that’s nuts for a device that costs several hundred dollars. And I would distinguish between security updates, keeping existing functions working, and adding new functions (in increasing order of length of “support”).
- pwthornton 7y agoMy opinion is that they should provide 10 years of security and other similar updates for free. They largely have been doing this, but their decision to keep the original Play 5 on sale for so long means that some people may have bought it within the last five years, despite being a really old device.