"I would agree with you, but the fact that this software is probably a C module running an HTML 5 module"
Fact is conjecture... And what's C done to deserve this?
@geekguy:
"Not accurate, Google has written good software which is now superseded, manufacturers, if they cared, could update their devices in someway to the new Apis. Samsung has a way of doing this. it is not a failure of Google but a failure of the OEMs. You cannot support aging software forever."
It's not just Samsung though. Three years is too short a support time for embedded devices like TVs and Blu-Ray players. They're not as easy to update and that should be taken into account.
Limiting the functionality of the API is understandable as is not allowing access to it from new devices but they shouldn't get bored with it and help push otherwise perfectly usable devices into landfill because they've got institutional ADHD.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
