On 04/16/2014 11:00 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote:
Fabrice Desré schrieb:
The situation with updates on b2g is far from being ideal. On one side,
phone manufacturers have little incentive to ship updates for a long
time. On the other side, users legitimately expect to be able to get the
latest version of the OS for as long as their phone works. I think a
reasonable target is to support devices for 2 years.
There is a third side: Our brand is being diluted if it's used on a lot of
devices out there that run heavily insecure versions of our software because
no updates have been delivered for a long time.
We routinely ship updates for sometimes grave security issues every six
weeks for our browser-only products, many of those vulnerabilities also
affect those phones that sit there proudly with the "Firefox OS" brand
printed on them but sadly without any patches for those issues.
We should not routinely have our brand on potentially insecure products.
Should we add an expire date based on Gecko's version, such as a version is
no longer branded if it is not up to date? This way, users would be aware
that their phone is no longer updated, and OEM would have ton of feedback
about the lack of updates.
--
Nicolas B. Pierron
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