[nadams]

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.

[1] http://www.droid-life.com/2015/08/03/android-distribution-au...

[SamReidHughes]

> I think something got lost in translation

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.