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Originally Posted by Sregener
I have a Sprint Galaxy Nexus. Google will not release KitKat for it. Even though the Sprint version of the Galaxy Nexus was only 18 months "new" when KitKat was announced. Because the other versions of the Galaxy Nexus were beyond 24 months, Google decided the model was beyond its support window.
Yes, I understand not much would need to be kept current with Chrome after 24 months, but if a browser vulnerability were discovered, there'd be no patch to fix it coming from Google.
If you wanted to install alternative OSs and deal with 3rd parties, doesn't that kind of negate the ChromeOS's strong point of not needing any user actions for support?
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That is only one of the strong points, but yes. I agree it would not be an optimal condition. (Although I don't think it will happen, desktop support seems more likely to me than mobile device support.)
Still, if you know what you are doing, and not everyone does, you could certainly fix the problem for yourself.
Another thing -- if the only real problem of likely impact would be security patches, is there any reason to think Google wouldn't patch it? To be clear: I am
asking, since I don't know.