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> Unfortunately regulations often don't go far enough. Eh, what are you proposing? That these new regulations should cover +10 year old devices too? Similarly
by embedding-shape 2mo ago
> Unfortunately regulations often don't go far enough.
Eh, what are you proposing? That these new regulations should cover +10 year old devices too?
Similarly I still have an iPhone with a lightning port instead of the legally mandated USB-C port, but at no point was I expecting Apple to somehow change the ports of existing devices.
- moffkalast 2mo agoArguably compute performance has changed very little in the past five years and we're way into diminishing returns for silicon, so yes it makes perfect sense for devices to last more than a decade and remain perfectly capable machines now as long as they're not kneecapped by lack of support combined with a locked ecosystem. Manufacturers either need to keep it updated or they need to make it possible for others to do so.
- ethbr1 2mo agoAnd with the memory crunch, it's likely that we passed peak memory in consumer devices, at least for a bit. So for next decade, older devices might often have more memory!
- yonatan8070 2mo agoNot the OP. I'd say that we need regulation requiring user-replacable software. Even though a PC might not be supported by Windows 11, and subsequently major browsers will cease support. You can still install a 3rd-party OS like Linux which will maintain support far beyond the original EoL. Same goes for Android devices, I used to have an LG G2 (the phone, not the TV), which IIRC shipped with Android 4 or 5, and through LineageOS I updated it all the way to Android 11. Granted it couldn't remain relevant forever, its 32-bit ARM architecture is quite outdated and a lot of apps lost support for it, but for a while it remained quite useful.