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by geek_at 1596 days ago
Yes the CCC also mentions router hardware quite a lot. You buy a 20€ wifi router from Mediamarkt or something and the CCC says it should come with a label until which date the router will get updates because the consumer has no idea they buy stuff that'll never see another update because the manufacturer already build two newer units.

In one podcast I heard t hem compare it to software in cars where if there is for example an encoding error so all bluetooth connections are reduced to a low bitrate they won't fix it until the next version of the car is released