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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by phh on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:14PM (#30076549)
> It forces you to develop in ways that are not natural for people that work with hardware

My employer still upgrades 10yrs old TV boxes just fine. (Rocking Linux 5.4 LTS, launched on 2.6)

It is not natural for companies whose business model is selling hardware. Or course their business incentive is not to make long-term support!

But my employer's business model isn't about selling hardware, but a service, hence the incentive to upgrade perfectly working hardware.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by deburo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:47PM (#30078566)
That's pretty funny considering the amount of tech consumers that hate having subscriptions attached to their hardware. There's no happy ending :^)
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by sulam on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:51PM (#30077849)
Yeah, a pure service model would be lovely in many ways. If I ever start a company that makes HW (fat chance) my experience at Fitbit means it will certainly be service-based.
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