The latest extension came in September 2023, when the company promised ten years of automatic updates, following pressure from the US-based Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). The advocacy organization had recommended this move in its Chromebook Churn report, which criticized the devices as not being designed to last.
PIRG celebrated its success at the time, claiming that Google's decision to extend support would "save millions of dollars and prevent tons of e-waste from being disposed of."
This, according to PIRG, still leaves many models set to reach end of life this year, or over the next several years.
Google's move actually meant that only Chromebooks released from 2021 onward would automatically get ten years of updates, starting in 2024.
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