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Google can create a new "Android Security Update Guarantee" services - for phone vendors. When phone vendors releases a phone, they can deposit the vendors cu
by srcmap 10y ago
Google can create a new "Android Security Update Guarantee" services - for phone vendors.
When phone vendors releases a phone, they can deposit the vendors custom binaries/source in google servers.
Google will maintain and release security updates for vendors for X number of years for Y amount of $$$/Year.
The phone vendors can snap a "Android Security Update Guarantee by Google until year ZZZZ" logo/label on the phone.
- Natanael_L 10y agoWould be too expensive to justify, unless you want the patches to be barebones with minimal testing
- signal11 10y agoBack when phones were mostly sold via carriers ("new phone every 2 years"), I suspect OEMs wouldn't want it because updates would almost guarantee no updates for the duration that the phone was supported by Google. In a plateauing market where more customers buy their own phones, it could be a differentiating factor. As an iPhone user I buy an unlocked phone every 3 years or so, updates are therefore important to me -- but clearly not to enough of the Android market right now.