Re:Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
by gruez on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:01PM
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> You're blurring the line between software and hardware support, which is a very important distinction.
Isn't hardware support just called "warranty"? That remains the same regardless of when you bought it.
>And that Apple products cost $$ while Ubuntu is free, which leads to different reasonable expectations.
My point wasn't whether canonical/apple's support lifecycle policies were reasonable, just that that defining support periods as the last day it was sold, rather the first day it was sold was unusual/misleading. If you want something to be supported a long time after you get it, you don't grab the oldest version, simple as that. Consumer products don't have a support subscription like enterprise products do, so limiting support to old products is really the only economically viable choice that companies have.
Isn't hardware support just called "warranty"? That remains the same regardless of when you bought it.
>And that Apple products cost $$ while Ubuntu is free, which leads to different reasonable expectations.
My point wasn't whether canonical/apple's support lifecycle policies were reasonable, just that that defining support periods as the last day it was sold, rather the first day it was sold was unusual/misleading. If you want something to be supported a long time after you get it, you don't grab the oldest version, simple as that. Consumer products don't have a support subscription like enterprise products do, so limiting support to old products is really the only economically viable choice that companies have.