• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Because if they want to be a real player, they need to do better. FP is small but they also aren’t shipping hundreds of devices. Defending them because one is small and one isn’t, without taking the number of devices sold or supported, makes this point moot. Now if Sammy offered like two models worldwide so it’s an even playing field, that’d be different.

    At the end of the day, all I’m expecting is a reasonable timeframe for (major) updates, and 10 months ain’t it, regardless of company.

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        5 months ago

        So they want to be known as slow to release updates and in no rush to improve that, then? Another provider of devices that receives updates ‘eventually’? That was fine a decade ago, but there’s no excuse for it now. Trying to be better about sourcing and sustainability is good, but that doesn’t detract from other factors. If they have too much on their plate, they shouldn’t have added more.

        Likewise, defending such behavior so strongly is ‘really showing’. 10 months for a version bump when it takes others weeks is bad, I’m sorry that you think otherwise. Nothing you say changes that - not sales numbers, not net profits, no ‘but they are small’ avoidance tactics. They don’t get a magic pass just because. It’s become easier since their launch years ago to speed up this process; there’s simply no excuse.