It's like comparing a price of a modern car to a 1920's Rolls Royce and saying "eh, they're cheap, they're less than 500.000$, why are you complaining?"

Why would you just give money to an entity which is bound by bad laws, no matter how good it is right now?

And HN has become a very negative hole by itself, rewarding complainers and pushing people who don't complain away (positive posts or ones that push back on needless negativity get downvoted a lot these days).

That's not great for battery life.

Right now - on smaller devices focused on books like 6-8" Kobo/Kindle devices this is primarily a gimmick used for book covers and perhaps some text highlights at best. That's what makes it a gimmick, especially since it comes with such a massive loss of contrast that you need to drive the backlight at 90-100% during the day to get readable experience out of it.

And I'm happy that Kaleido 4 improves this (it's one of the things I'm most excited with for my 10" Boox where color screen is much more useful), but even with 50% improvement the contrast is still significantly worse than on the BW readers, making the experience of reading normal books a significant downgrade in exchange for some color front covers.

Your comparisons to TV are just inane, the tradeoffs aren't even remotely similar. Noone is clamoring for rainbow letters on their Kindle.

They're two different things for different uses, one blasts light and colour in your eyes, other has a paperly look.

That's the reality - yes, even for Apple.

If you think they could and should be better - I guess I agree, but it doesn't change the reality.

What does "timely" here mean? A lot of security patches for all these companies take ~weeks+ to actually make it to customers due to things like QA testing, carrier testing and release processes.

The time between disclosure and release can be rather long, months even for all of them. (I'm counting private disclosure here.)

Maybe their own source at OEMs lied to them? The QPRs are in the same repo they're getting their security patches from.

Graphene isn't OEM so they don't get access to Android repository before AOSP drops. OEMs - like Motorola for example - do have access to partner repository and can ship QPRs if they wish to do so. Most often OEMs do not want to push updates (and it took years to make them push regular major Android updates).

> I think they know what they are taking about.

Err, if you look at that account you'll find that the person running it has a penchant for overexaggeration and selective truth telling when they feel aggrieved.

This is not true at all though. OEMs can release anything whenever they want.

Well, the corporate lawyers think otherwise at those corporations, so I'm not sure how much your interpretation counts :)

Also - the reality of what you think is ok and what a corporate legal department think its ok is... rarely the same -_-