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Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

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  1. jezzamon · · focus · HN ↗
    Discussed a lot here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49893653">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49893653

    Seems to be more reasonable than this title suggests?

    Some comments: &quot;So they have introduced a major change and said any older Chromebooks bought going forward will only get 8. So its not a retrospective reduction for existing customers.&quot; (Edit: actually I think this comment is wrong, if you bought a Chromebook 1 year ago, you&#x27;d only get 9 years of ChromeOS updates)

    &quot;From my understanding of the article, it sounds like ChromeOS support is getting pared back for those devices, but the devices themselves should still be supported, albeit via a (planned but not yet in existence) migration path to GooglebookOS.&quot;

    1. shevy-java · · focus · HN ↗
      Could you clarify what you mean with reasonable here?
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