On the Android side, this would be a small but welcome improvement. Though, with smartphones approaching commodity status, I'm sure we'll see more and more ups

On the Android side, this would be a small but welcome improvement. Though, with smartphones approaching commodity status, I'm sure we'll see more and more upstart phone vendors that go out of business 2-3 years in to dodge support requirements. I'd be curious if the regulators have measures against this. I'd expect not. I'm also a bit wary of legislation that would require hardware vendors to be good at software. They're different skill sets and there's a risk that any such measure would stifle smaller companies that serve more niche markets. For any vendor that locks down hardware to a specific OS like Apple, I think this does very, very little. For a personal example, Apple botched the battery management software in iOS 14 causing several older model (but recently bought and healthy battery-wise) iPhones I own to drain from 100% to 0% in 2 hours with no app use and from 100% to 10% in seconds if apps like Podcasts or Mail try to sync. These phones are nominally supported, but unusable. Apple's approach to responding to user (or developer) bugs is notoriously useless unless you get media attention, and their user-interface philosophy is that no problems happen ever and if they were to happen, you the customer should not be allowed to know the information you would need to solve them. Apple is up to 14.7 and soon 14.8 and still has not fixed all the battery management issues they introduced with 14.0 If this were a PC, I would just roll back the OS, but with iOS devices, Apple requires sign off with their servers and only allows the most recent version (+/- a security update) to be installed. They do this for security, supposedly, but don't seem to care that they prevent people like me from running alternative software that might fix the problems that make their otherwise perfectly functional devices unusable. Unlike their M1 Macs running on the same architecture, they don't even give the option. Their phones ship with special fuses that get blown when given to customers to lock them down at the hardware level. That's how far they go. Right to repair is hollow without the right to install alternative firmware and software.