The operative difference is that intelligent adversaries are not coming up with new and better methods of making your bumper fall off.
The economics of providing 5 years of defensive patching on a $100 device simply does not work.
The economics of providing 5 years of defensive patching on a $100 device simply does not work.
Support costs increase as fragmentation does, it things sold at a reasonable price and without dozens of variations it would be more feasible to maintain longer supported life cycles - but these companies have no incentive to think beyond the next quarter’s earnings call.
Not yet.