I think something got lost in translation - I'm not saying for the manufacturers NOT to release updates.
I'm advocating for the ability for people like me to be able to apply the patches manually - and thus as a result the ability to remove and tweak the underlying OS to my liking. As it stands right now I can't do that due to proprietary drivers.
> What proportion of Android users do you think would be left unpatched?
But I'll humor you. Analyzing the breakdown of Android devices [1] - I would argue at this point devices running 4.2.X and lower will never see another update (because 4.2 is almost 3 years old - if there is an upgrade available people haven't or will never upgrade). That is about 34% of Android devices who will, arguably, never see another update.
I do like how they left off Honeycomb (3.X) - I know for a fact there are still devices out there running it so that graph is a little off.
Oh, I get it, so when you said you don't think the delay is the problem, while quoting a sentence talking about getting the patch to users, you were in fact talking about what you wanted, not what would be good for general users.
I'm advocating for the ability for people like me to be able to apply the patches manually - and thus as a result the ability to remove and tweak the underlying OS to my liking. As it stands right now I can't do that due to proprietary drivers.
> What proportion of Android users do you think would be left unpatched?
But I'll humor you. Analyzing the breakdown of Android devices [1] - I would argue at this point devices running 4.2.X and lower will never see another update (because 4.2 is almost 3 years old - if there is an upgrade available people haven't or will never upgrade). That is about 34% of Android devices who will, arguably, never see another update.
I do like how they left off Honeycomb (3.X) - I know for a fact there are still devices out there running it so that graph is a little off.
[1] http://www.droid-life.com/2015/08/03/android-distribution-au...