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This will put many smaller brands out of business, driving up prices on the poor. Most lower end brands barely make a profit as if (often selling at a loss when
by worldofmatthew 5y ago
This will put many smaller brands out of business, driving up prices on the poor. Most lower end brands barely make a profit as if (often selling at a loss when doing sales).
- VortexDream 5y agoThey don't even have to do their own security updates. If they stick to vanilla Android, they have much less work than if they customize the ROM for every one of their devices. There might even be an industry-wide push for Google to make it easier to update phones independent of firmware blobs (beyond project treble), because suddenly there will be financial incentive to push as much work/effort onto the most obvious candidate.
- google234123 5y agoThis industry wide push to make it easier to update phones will also piss of HN :)
- worldofmatthew 5y agoRandom updates can break capability with the firmware if anything that firmware relies on in the kernel changes. Would still require them to fully test every function before each update.
- goodpoint 5y agoNot at all.