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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by 908B64B197 on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:13PM (#28439490)
Meanwhile in Windows land: You can run 20 years old drivers, no problems. Hardware is a commodity.

I can see why Android was so popular with OEMs!

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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:09PM (#28440507)
> Meanwhile in Windows land: You can run 20 years old drivers, no problems. Hardware is a commodity.

You can sometimes run 20 year old drivers, assuming same ISA and that none of the ABI has changed, which does in fact happen, just more rarely. Windows 10 is certainly not compatible with 100% of drivers from Windows 7, let alone XP (20 years ago is 2001, so Windows 2000 is actually likely).

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