[chasil]

What makes you think that Play Services is well-designed?

Google also designed the media system, and that leads the security patches every month - what would have rehabilitated them?

https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/16/08/26/1338246/the-s...

"Don't start me on Stagefright and Mediaserver, I could rant for 2 or 3 hours non-stop! Seriously, the code over there is crap, and has insane concepts, like aborting the whole mediaserver (and all related media decoding of all other applications running at the same time), when it parses a file with attributes it does not know, instead of skipping the file. We discovered some issues in Stagefright (busy loops, device reboots, mediaserver crashes) quite early, but we never thought about submitting them."