As the old adage goes, "chips without software is just expensive sand."
Yes what happened & happens is often monstrously unsupportable & terrible. For the past 6 years, Google rolling up with a dump truck full of bills has been justification to keep doing nothing, to keep letting kernel devices be bad.
Your history isn't even good or right. Old releases at the time didn't get official longer support. Canonical just opted to maintain a basically Super LTS 3.16 until 2020, regardless of the Google dump-truck-of-money thing going on here. Old phones got nothing directly from this payoff. Google was just paying for a way forward to keep doing nothing, to justify their ongoing delinquency & inactivity.
Which was unprincipled terrible and awful before, but which they basically bribed gregkh to suddenly make acceptable by at least paying for the privilege of being negligent do nothing delinquents on.
Yes what happened & happens is often monstrously unsupportable & terrible. For the past 6 years, Google rolling up with a dump truck full of bills has been justification to keep doing nothing, to keep letting kernel devices be bad.
Your history isn't even good or right. Old releases at the time didn't get official longer support. Canonical just opted to maintain a basically Super LTS 3.16 until 2020, regardless of the Google dump-truck-of-money thing going on here. Old phones got nothing directly from this payoff. Google was just paying for a way forward to keep doing nothing, to justify their ongoing delinquency & inactivity.
Which was unprincipled terrible and awful before, but which they basically bribed gregkh to suddenly make acceptable by at least paying for the privilege of being negligent do nothing delinquents on.