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It should be a legal requirement for platforms dominant in their industry to provide security updates until the hardware is at least 15yo, or include source wit

It should be a legal requirement for platforms dominant in their industry to provide security updates until the hardware is at least 15yo, or include source with a license allowing for modification. It is crazy that they can just abandon hardware that drove sales of their software after only a few years.

ksaj 3y ago
I would say it is even worse when considering tablets and smart phones, and maybe even laptops (although they have a significantly better shelf life than tablets and smart phones). They are garbage the moment the battery ages out. For some tablets, that meant one or if very lucky, two years. That's a lot of nice screens to the bin for something that otherwise should be trivial to replace.
- ta988 3y ago
  I have a nexus tablet and ipads that are 10 years old and they still work. The iPad I had to repurpose in a osc controller because of lack of updates but the nexus still works and is useful.
  - AniseAbyss 3y ago
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jquast 3y ago
I would have disagreed about supporting 80286 PC-DOS and Apple ][ computers all the way to the year 2000 but supporting 2+Ghz 64-bit x86’s in 2023 isn’t really asking a lot.. and android phones in particular need to be prosecuted criminally for their ocean garbage
- ElectricalUnion 3y ago
  > 80286 PC-DOS You still need to support those, or your expensive factory automation platform stops working. Unless society as a whole is entirely on-board on paying factory renovations, or the environmental impact of such upheaval of scrapping away working manufacturing plants.
gpm 3y ago
I'd go much further. Either you fix anything that is broken, i.e. bug fixes both security and non-security related, or you should be required to let the people who bought it fix it, forever. Did you stop supporting Windows 95? Ok, time to put it's source code and build tools into the public domain.
- polygamous_bat 3y ago
  I would happily be lenient and throw in an extra clause: if you don’t want to do either, give people a full refund for wasting their time on your (now) garbage software.

ksaj 3y ago

I would say it is even worse when considering tablets and smart phones, and maybe even laptops (although they have a significantly better shelf life than tablets and smart phones). They are garbage the moment the battery ages out. For some tablets, that meant one or if very lucky, two years. That's a lot of nice screens to the bin for something that otherwise should be trivial to replace.

ta988 3y ago
I have a nexus tablet and ipads that are 10 years old and they still work. The iPad I had to repurpose in a osc controller because of lack of updates but the nexus still works and is useful.
- AniseAbyss 3y ago
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jquast 3y ago

I would have disagreed about supporting 80286 PC-DOS and Apple ][ computers all the way to the year 2000 but supporting 2+Ghz 64-bit x86’s in 2023 isn’t really asking a lot.. and android phones in particular need to be prosecuted criminally for their ocean garbage

ElectricalUnion 3y ago
> 80286 PC-DOS You still need to support those, or your expensive factory automation platform stops working. Unless society as a whole is entirely on-board on paying factory renovations, or the environmental impact of such upheaval of scrapping away working manufacturing plants.

gpm 3y ago

I'd go much further. Either you fix anything that is broken, i.e. bug fixes both security and non-security related, or you should be required to let the people who bought it fix it, forever. Did you stop supporting Windows 95? Ok, time to put it's source code and build tools into the public domain.

polygamous_bat 3y ago
I would happily be lenient and throw in an extra clause: if you don’t want to do either, give people a full refund for wasting their time on your (now) garbage software.