Qualcomm wants OEMs to have easier time updating Android, will announce something later this year
www.androidauthority.com
Qualcomm knows that updating older chips is complicated (and expensive) for Android OEMs. The company will make this a bit easier this year.

TLDR

  • A Qualcomm executive told Android Authority that the company is working to make it easier for OEMs to keep devices with older Qualcomm chipsets up to date.
  • The company understands that updating older devices is currently “complicated,” not to mention expensive.
  • There will be some announcements on this topic “later this year,” presumably surrounding the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Do they? Presumably they’d open source and upstream their firmware or at the very least provide longer software support if that were the case.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      No, that’d be too easy. We can’t have that. Please buy new chips.

    • Markaos@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, even the TLDR makes it sound more like Qualcomm is yielding to the pressure from OEMs who want to be able to offer longer updates