23 May
2016
23 May
'16
2:32 a.m.
Robin Humble via luv-talk wrote:
sadly, that's pretty much the mobile phone business model. make something attractively light and yet incredibly fragile, which inevitably breaks, [...] manufacturers are probably happy that the limited half-life means they don't have to do android support for long. it's win-win for them.
I don't think rapid EOLs are because of product fragility. I think it's because consumers don't give a shit about security. See also http://androidvulnerabilities.org/ (TL;DR: if you own a smartphone, YOU LOSE.)