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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. wongarsu · · focus · HN ↗
      Reasonable would have been to deprecate support in 10 years, not 8.

      Saying &quot;yeah, we promised you 10 years of support, but if you just bought yours the last two years of that will only be supported if you switch to a completely different OS. But happily some of our devices have a direct migration path (if that&#x27;s not yours, deal with it). Better hope the features you need will be available in our new OS by then, because right now they are not&quot; is a major rugpull and not reasonable at all

      1. Zigurd · · focus · HN ↗
        Not that Google has done anything to make it more obvious but ChromeOS, the OS on GoogleBooks, and an obscure Linux you can put on random old PCs, are all related in interesting ways if not derived from the same project.

        The practical issue in this case appears to be that GoogleBooks branding is meant to indicate they are good at running Gemini and other Google AI technologies. Chromebook aren&#x27;t.

        I doubt the entity called Google is of one mind about any of this.

        1. edoceo · · focus · HN ↗
          Which obscure Linux?
          1. a1o · · focus · HN ↗
            It used to be Gentoo but not sure it is related anyway nowadays
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