>… who would ever buy a neural lace from a startup — or even an established company like Google who might just lose interest — if there was no guarentee of patches and maintenance?

Of course there’d be a guarantee: 5 years of security updates for your neural implant until you need new hardware.

Golly, that almost sounds completely fucking crazy until you realize it’s already their current policy for smartphones-which arguably already serve a similar role. That’s up from thee years previously. I think it was even two at one point.

I should have been a neurosurgeon.