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If it was a company you could trust with LTS, it would be interesting.

Seven years of Pixel updates and 10 years of ChromeOS updates aren't nothing.

Its also completely and totally unproven. I had chrome laptops that warned that they were out of support two years ago, less then a year after I bought it. The whole process disguested me so much that I replaced them with macs.

lets see google actually deliver.

It's pretty much nothing, and the only reason anyone thinks it's impressive is because the competition is so abysmally bad.

We've got free software projects like the BSDs and Linux supporting hardware that's decades old with their latest releases, and we should be impressed when giant companies with infinitely more resources like Google and Apple can't even stretch OS support to a mere decade?

In different areas, though. Windows also supports some very old hardware and the FOSS community is also out of luck when phone chip makers stop releasing blobs/kernels.

Google is in the best position to tell chipmakers they can't use proprietary blobs. They just aren't motivated enough to try.

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