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by kotaKat 1017 days ago
Because Microsoft wasn't and isn't an Android OEM.

The Surface Duo was supposed to be a Windows 10X companion device until at the last minute they hired a firm (Movial) to port the metal to Android. Halfway through the port they brought on that entire division as MS employees and that's who basically was running the Android porting shitshow.