Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
kalistia@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
And? Do they plan to put all the software open source so that the millions of hardware they sold would not go to waste in some years? We should force them to by law.
holgersson@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You only read the headline, didnt you?
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s what clickbait aims to achieve. Just make people rage. People need to learn to read the article before raging.
dumbass@leminal.space 3 months ago
I come down to these comments to have someone angrily explain it in simple terms to me.
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fair enough.
kalistia@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Well, you should read the article yourself : “Google says it will continue to push software and security updates to its newer devices without specifying which ones.”.
So only newer devices (and we don’t know which ones), and if you are a bit familiar with technology, you would very well know that they will just quit updating the software anyways after some time as they stopped making the whole Chromecast line.
So my remark about the fact that we should have laws forcing manufacturers to make their software open source as soon as they’re no longer updated is more valid than ever!
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to not expect a company to perpetually support a sub-$100 device. Especially if said device has been around for 5+ years at least.