Eric, Beats the heck out of the cell phone industry, where any phone that is more than about 3 yrs old goes out of support, and I'm forced to upgrade if I want any more security updates.
I anticipate that soon the feds will decide to regulate support of connected IoT devices, requiring update/security support for X number of years after manufacture/sale, if the industry doesn't deal with it first. My advice for the industry is it is much better to steer your own ship than to wait for regulation. In the auto industry, OEMs are required to keep spare parts in inventory for ten years after the last date of manufacture for any particular discontinued model. No word, yet, though, on how long things like an Internet-connected head unit (radio) needs to be kept updated. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3s availability From: "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" <e...@elecraft.com> Date: Thu, June 20, 2019 3:12 am To: j...@kk9a.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Our current plan is to keep the K3S in the product line as long as demand is sufficient to economically produce it. We are certainly still shipping new K3S orders weekly and have sufficient parts inventory to keep manufacturing them at this time. We also are still strongly supporting existing K3 and K3S owners. 73, Eric Waking up in Friedrichshafen after 24 hrs of travel and getting over my jet lag. elecraft.com _..._ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
