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I wonder if I am alone in thinking 5yr is way too short. It should be 10, if not 20 years.

This is software, not hardware. It is ridiculous to pretend it is ok for a phone to artificially stop being useful after just 5 years simply because the vendor won't give software support or even provide the necessary documentation, source code and keys for the community to do.

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True, longer would be better. And if the platform was truly open, we could just treat phone like PCs. You can still install Linux on a 20 year old machine and it will work.

At least this is 5 years from "the end of placement on the market". So more realistically it should be around 7 years from release.

This.

Why can't we enforce that they mainline their hardware?

I agree with you, but still, 5y is better than nothing.

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