@glyph@mhoye@mcc Wait, what's dangerous about supporting devices for longer? The major attack surface is Chrome itself, so common across all hardware. Google may not want to do it and the fact that they don't is a product choice on their part.
@mirth@mhoye@mcc my point is that, at *some* point, the devices are too old to be supported. The kernel is also a significant attack surface, and there are ABI stability issues with device support. There’s nothing dangerous about supporting them for longer, only costly. And maybe Google should be paying that cost for longer, I don’t know what their margins are like. It’s fine to say that 3 years is too early, my contention is only that “forever” is too long to expect.
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@mirth @mhoye @mcc my point is that, at *some* point, the devices are too old to be supported. The kernel is also a significant attack surface, and there are ABI stability issues with device support. There’s nothing dangerous about supporting them for longer, only costly. And maybe Google should be paying that cost for longer, I don’t know what their margins are like. It’s fine to say that 3 years is too early, my contention is only that “forever” is too long to expect.