But it's better than it was. In the past, maybe you'd never get security updates because Qualcomm wasn't guaranteed to provide the driver updates, ergo a devic

But it's better than it was. In the past, maybe you'd never get security updates because Qualcomm wasn't guaranteed to provide the driver updates, ergo a device might not even make it to the one year mark. I bought plenty of tablets that were insecure out of the box. That is bad in terms of e-waste (and arguably not of merchantable quality, but that's a Brit-centric consumer legal issue). If you go by the assumption of 1 year becoming maybe 5, that's 5x improvement, and thus potentially 5x less e-waste. If someone uses it for 3 years then sells it or trades it on, I'm sure someone else will get it to the 5 year mark.