Motorola recently launched several phones with no Android updates but five years of security patches in Europe.
This could be due to the company’s interpretation of EU regulations regarding software updates.
It seems like the regulations don’t actually force smartphone makers to offer software updates at all.
That’s a pretty big loophole. And it encourages manufacturers to stop providing security fixes altogether. The commission fucked up pretty bad on this one.
No, it’s only a loophole if you cherry pick single sentences and omit the next part that further defines and restricts it.
See my other comment: https://feddit.org/comment/11272121
As soon as a security patch is published in AOSP, they have a deadline of four months to roll it out. Sox months for ‘feature updates’.