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The Google ecosystem. If you want to ship a phone with Play, Maps, Gmail etc you have to commit to supporting it with patches for N years where N is greater or
by spiralpolitik 11y ago
The Google ecosystem. If you want to ship a phone with Play, Maps, Gmail etc you have to commit to supporting it with patches for N years where N is greater or equal to 2.
As has been pointed out, Google doesn't do this for the fear that the manufacturers will walk and as such has prioritized market share over security.