As a point of comparison, Microsoft ships its OS across a variety of manufacturers and largely keeps it maintained across them (give or take some exceptions like enterprise environments & the like).

Even unlocked Android phones purchased independently of carriers have inconsistent lengths of support, so it doesn’t seem to be entirely a result of carriers, so…What happened here?

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t wanna sound too defensive but I did say this

    That takes considerable effort, although if they chose to focus on a select few devices every year, they’d be able to do so.

    I agree that I can reword it to make that clear, but I don’t think, nor do I hope anyone will make that conclusion about FOSS…

    • mcforest@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      That sentence is completely correct from my point of view and has nothing to do with Foss. That’s an issue for Windows as well as Linux and Android. I think the difference is that that for the former two driver developers just take the extra effort to support hardware long term. So I think you’re right that a little rewording would help.