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>but I find Google's end of life policy for Chromebooks baffling. Brought to you by the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones are the most successful computers eve
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
>but I find Google's end of life policy for Chromebooks baffling.
Brought to you by the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones are the most successful computers ever, but could a computer manufacturer pull off arbitrary update schedule, locked boot-loader and among other nonsense a decade ago? Now this has seeped into personal computers.
>this means that there is no way for a six-year-old Chromebook to safely browse the web. How is this justifiable, in terms of security?
Neither does in iOS, especially in iOS since all browsers are Safari WebViews and So once OS updates stop it becomes dangerous to even browse the web. 7 year old android can receive latest Firefox, but it's highly likely it never received a single OS upgrade in its lifetime.
- pjmlp 6y ago> Brought to you by the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones are the most successful computers ever, but could a computer manufacturer pull off arbitrary update schedule, locked boot-loader and among other nonsense a decade ago? Now this has seeped into personal computers. For sure, the PC were the exception. If you wanted any updates on 8 and 16 bit home computers, you would buy a new computer. OEMs have learned that the PC was a mistake (from their point of view) and except for the surviving desktops, we are back into the 80's.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThe iPhone 5s received a security update last month, so it is in it's eighth year of security updates. Five years longer than Google has supported it's own first party Pixel phones.