As smartphones become more and more essential to modern life: Are we as a society OK with rich people's smartphones (iPhone, Pixel) getting security updates and everybody else's smartphones not getting them? It seems like the sort of market failure that needs regulation.

Nov 27, 2017 · 4:13 AM UTC

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I would expect such regulation to reduce the variety of low-end smartphones since it would increase per-model costs. It feels like there still ought to be enough demand to produce a bit of variety, with decent price competition.
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Replying to @davidbaron @khuey_
I have some ideas and some code for this...pretty complex problem due to strange incentives. I think there is room for a startup here too