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“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..

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[–] nous@programming.dev 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They should also be required to support it for X (exact time is up for debate) years after they stop selling it so you have some minimum amount of time that you know the device will be supported for no matter when you buy it.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

And not just software vendors, but chip and board manufacturers with at least security fixes for at least the same length of time, but maybe like X+2 years to account for devices being released after the initial components