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Three years of support is very poor and encourages e-waste, I will not be buying a phone with Qualcomm hardware in it.

• ac29 6y ago
  That rules out iPhone as well, then.
  • kevincox 6y ago
    It seems like Apple is being enough that they can get updates for their blobs, or are writing their own blobs. Although even then there are no promises. Maybe if a critical vulnerability was found in a Qualcomm blob Apple wouldn't be able to patch it. So in practice they do very well despite containing Qualcomm parts, but it isn't clear how much of this is just luck.
    • 2ion 6y ago
      At this point Qualcomm should be pretty worried about getting replaced out of Apple hardware, so I suppose key account managers are scrambling to do Apples' bidding, at least to some degree. Apple has so much control over their embedded hardware now, they probably are already working at ridding themselves of everything that stops them from 100% control. This is unparalleled in other hardware/software ecosystems; there, the situation is often much the reverse.