> OnHub’s software includes advanced and always-evolving security features that update automatically to help protect your network, your data, and all your devices.
While it is manufactured by a third party, it's branded as a Google product.
You can't control retail inventory (well, for some products retailers report serial numbers sold, so maybe you can), but you can make relatively solid assumptions that if you shipped the units to the store/retail warehouse, they're either going to sell them or return them within some period of time, maybe 3-6 months. So assume last sale was 6 months after the last shipment.
How come smaller companies like Zyxel and Asus have solved this problem decades ago? Maybe because they support their hardware for years after they stopped producing, so the stock clears?
It's one thing to leave some obscure issue unpatched in a functional product, but to leave a product non-functional is such vandalism that I will avoid them like the plague.
But yes, every time i bought one of their products i had 5 years of updates, and by that time it was out of retail for years.
They don't have advertising-monopoly waterfalls of money, which affords them an attention span for things other than the care and feeding of the advertising monopoly.
> I don't see how Google can control the behavior of retailers of 3rd-party hardware.
That hardware bears trademarks that Google controls, so it's not purely a third-party product. Google may not be able to prevent retailers from selling off their remaining stock, but they should at least be able to prevent the manufacturers from sending any more to retailers, and inform retailers that the products are discontinued.