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by noir_lord
1719 days ago
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> What’s going on with Android ecosystem that old phone support is hard? It's not a single thing it's a bunch of things on the list of which is. Hardware manufacturers customised android for their handsets meaning that updates are only viable from them, they only care about 18mths after they stop making a model. Google in wanting everyone to use their handsets let them get away with pulling stuff like above - android didn't win because it was technically better it won because it was "free" and "made" by Google. Shitty drivers. Once Google had the market mostly sown up they did circle back and attempt to fix this with AndroidOne https://www.android.com/intl/en_uk/one/ which attempts to establish a baseline compatibility so that you do get updates for longer. I won't buy a phone that isn't AndroidOne at this point full stop. |
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