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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by londons_explore on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:10PM (#30078839)
Supporting it for 3 extra years for $1M is only $333k per year, which probably only pays for 2 junior developers.

Would you like to be one of two developers whose responsibility is looking after all security patches and the build and release process for a 100 million line codebase?

Sounds cheap to me.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by phh on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:26PM (#30079604)
Getting paid twice my current salary year to cherry-pick commits from one branch to another and click rebuild? Hell yes!

Though Qualcomm get much cheaper engineers than me in India.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by jokethrowaway on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:10PM (#30079435)
Or you could hire a team of 5 in Eastern Europe
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by gambiting on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:36AM (#30083159)
In eastern europe? 300k would get you 5 developers in the UK for a year, easy.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by WYepQ4dNnG on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:49PM (#30079805)
Well it clearly shows that their business model is fundamentally flawed and they should probably stop selling phones.
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