If vendors are either forced by law to keep every device they produce up to date with security fixes, until is patents and copyright expires, or have to allow end users to install any alternative software, without loosing any features advertised and provided by the hardware. I would be fine with that compromise.
exactly! Like other people get a couple years out of software updates, but fuck me I only got a year, still riding on 2020 software as if I don’t care but it’s just the fact my phone got one update.
The reason I replaced my last phone was SW support
Not to be “that guy”, but this is why they stop supporting it. Because of people like you and me, who will keep using it forever, if it wasn’t for the abandoned software.
And it’s also why they don’t release with unlocked bootloaders… It’s why there needs to be more regulation around the right to repair not only hardware but also software…
Agrees completely. I don’t buy a device unless I own all of it. If I can’t remove their software and install my own, I don’t own it, and I won’t buy it. While I’m not wild about the fact that Pixels are google phones, the bootloader is unlocked.
Eh, I ended up getting a Pixel because of longer software support instead of buying a newer model from the same manufacturer. I should be good for 7-ish years.
My one and only request : operating system security fixes, updates for years
Yes! I think part of the right to repair is the ability to install your own software on devices you own, when the vendor stops fixing it.
Not even when the vendor stops fixing it. Anytime you want.
If vendors are either forced by law to keep every device they produce up to date with security fixes, until is patents and copyright expires, or have to allow end users to install any alternative software, without loosing any features advertised and provided by the hardware. I would be fine with that compromise.
exactly! Like other people get a couple years out of software updates, but fuck me I only got a year, still riding on 2020 software as if I don’t care but it’s just the fact my phone got one update.
Exactly. The reason I replaced my last phone was SW support. I would still be using it today if I felt it was secure enough.
Not to be “that guy”, but this is why they stop supporting it. Because of people like you and me, who will keep using it forever, if it wasn’t for the abandoned software.
And it’s also why they don’t release with unlocked bootloaders… It’s why there needs to be more regulation around the right to repair not only hardware but also software…
Agrees completely. I don’t buy a device unless I own all of it. If I can’t remove their software and install my own, I don’t own it, and I won’t buy it. While I’m not wild about the fact that Pixels are google phones, the bootloader is unlocked.
Eh, I ended up getting a Pixel because of longer software support instead of buying a newer model from the same manufacturer. I should be good for 7-ish years.
Hey! Me, too! Sweet!