nobody is a saint on this matter. both parties act the way they do to support their business position. short-term support helps qualcomm sell more because thei

nobody is a saint on this matter. both parties act the way they do to support their business position. short-term support helps qualcomm sell more because their customers want to sell more phones to the same users. on the other hand, for the industrial partners there is an "LTS" model of support given (side effect being fairphone 5 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320800). long-term support through backwards compatibility helps intel because they can sell new chips with the assurance that the ancient, unmaintained industrial software continues to run in a shinier box.