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> If someone senior at Samsung said to their vendor "good Bluetooth or you lose the Samsung account", that would provoke some, um, intense conversations at the
by GeekyBear 6y ago
> If someone senior at Samsung said to their vendor "good Bluetooth or you lose the Samsung account", that would provoke some, um, intense conversations at the vendor between sales and engineering.
The same thing could be said for Qualcomm's failure to support it's SOCs for more than a couple of years. Device makers could force their hand.
- signal11 6y ago> support it's SOCs for more than a couple of years That works, even works well, as long as device makers feel that supporting SOCs for a limited period helps them sell more phones. Apple has changed the rules of the game by supporting its devices for longer -- and as phone upgrades become more infrequent due to plateauing technology, I think device makers will realize this. Samsung has already committed to supporting recent Galaxy devices for at least 4 years -- at least with security updates[1]. I suspect this was also because they found that their extremely short-sighted prior policy re security updates encouraged corporate phone procurers to ditch Samsung and go with Apple. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295639/samsung-galaxy-device-2019-four-years-security-updates https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295639/samsung-galaxy-d...
- GeekyBear 6y agoAny movement on the Android side is helpful and hopefully Samsung can shame Google into following suit. However, if we're going to count years where you only got a security update, the iPhone 5s is currently on it's 8th supported year.