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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by enriquto on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:34PM (#28437768)
Thus a neat effect of such a law would be that SOC manufacturers would not purposefully break compatibility as much as they do now. Sounds like a win-win to me!
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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by JoshTriplett on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:06PM (#28438115)
Or, much more likely, they'll continue building new hardware as they do now, and let the length of software support for old hardware in one particular market be a software problem for the vendors selling into that market.

Don't assume that attempting to solve a problem with a law can only have one possible outcome, and can't possibly have a different outcome instead.

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