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.
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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.

Nov 27, 2017 · 4:15 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
I’m wondering how “reducing the variety” would work. Do I need some kind of license to start manufacturing a niche specialty phone?
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