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Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

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jezzamon · 1790860299 · focus · HN ↗
Discussed a lot here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893653">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893653
Seems to be more reasonable than this title suggests?
Some comments: "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." (Edit: actually I think this comment is wrong, if you bought a Chromebook 1 year ago, you'd only get 9 years of ChromeOS updates)
"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."
1. hedora · 1790860980 · focus · HN ↗
  These devices are usually bought on contract, with lots of lock in.
  In particular, there are lots of schools getting screwed over financially. Maybe they’ll switch vendors, or use the money for education. Chromebook spending has a strong negative correlation with educational performance.
  As a parent, I am supposed to have control over my kids’ personal information, but the schools firehose all the most sensitive kids’ info they have to an unlawful marketing firm that I do not trust. How do I opt out?
  1. _blk · 1790862851 · focus · HN ↗
    Homeschool, vote for free school choice, vote for getting the subsidized funds to where you actually send your kids. Solves most problems related to bad school policies.
    afavour · 1790863984 · focus · HN ↗
    > vote for getting the subsidized funds to where you actually send your kids
    …which is what happens today with public schools. Your case only makes sense if you’re sending your kid to private school and would like public funds to help pay for it.
    School vouchers allow richer families to go to private school while preventing lower income folks from doing so, exacerbating problems with educational achievement.
    theoreticalmal · 1790865538 · focus · HN ↗
    School vouchers are the only fair way to do schooling. Rich people paying for more expensive things isn’t bad. They just shouldn’t be forced to pay for the more expensive thing that they use as well as the less expensive thing they don’t use
    TitaRusell · 1790869561 · focus · HN ↗
    One of the best things about America is how highschools mix children from all backgrounds.
    In my country your life is already decided at age 12- go to the wrong school and it's over.
    ndsipa_pomu · 1790931891 · focus · HN ↗
    Most countries have your lifepath decided at birth by the wealth of your parents.

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