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by pjmlp 3220 days ago
Yet Google decides, sadly for us, not to use that as enforcement for the updates.
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Indeed. Google has the power, and that excuse that Android is open source and therefore Google can't impose anything on OEMs is getting a little old and tired.

If Google would have promoted Android the way it did with Chrome OS (and the open source Chromium OS), it wouldn't be in this situation, and we'd be getting updates often. But I guess hindsight is 20/20. I still wish they did more about the support of Android devices throughout the ecosystem, not just for the highest-end devices.