[swiley]

> Google needs to support their own phone past three years

It's not really Google's choice. Qualcomm gives up on their SOCs pretty quickly and unlike on Linux Android's license doesn't force them to publish driver sources.

[account42]

You don't think Google could demand driver sources for the harware they use or use hardware with driver sources available? It is their choice.

[Dah00n]

Sure they could but they wouldn't get them. Not for release and without that they are useless.

[xvf22]

And how many more years did they give people on the Google SOC?