They should be forced to provide open bootloaders, firmware and kernel drivers once the devices reach end of life.
How would you propose it?
You wouldn’t be able to say “smartphones” as not all run Android obviously. Limiting legislation to Android specifically would make no sense either, OEMs may just do hard forks then (ahem, HarmonyOS).
I would like it, but I feel that it would be harder to convince legislators that it is an actually practical use case.
Because besides Android and iOS, there is also for example Tizen and KaiOS. Is there a market for custom software for those devices? And if not, why require it?
How would you propose it?
You wouldn’t be able to say “smartphones” as not all run Android obviously. Limiting legislation to Android specifically would make no sense either, OEMs may just do hard forks then (ahem, HarmonyOS).
Why not force Apple too?
I would like it, but I feel that it would be harder to convince legislators that it is an actually practical use case.
Because besides Android and iOS, there is also for example Tizen and KaiOS. Is there a market for custom software for those devices? And if not, why require it?