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IIRC Google cut support for the Nexus 4 whilst maintaining support for their tablet that used exactly the same chipset. One of Google’s Android engineers even d
by pja 9y ago
IIRC Google cut support for the Nexus 4 whilst maintaining support for their tablet that used exactly the same chipset. One of Google’s Android engineers even did their own cut+paste builds for the Nexus 4 from the new Android release at the time.
Dropping support at that particular point in time was purely a marketing / management decision that wasn't driven by any technical considerations whatsoever.
When you do this kind of thing as a company over and over again, people notice.
- bipson 9y agoNever heard these claims. Source?
- pja 9y agoHere’s a blog post by the programmer in question: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=06.+Thoughts&proj=02.%20Android%20M%20on%20Nexus4 http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=06.+Thoughts&proj=02.%20Android... I think that covers most of the main points. Of course, it may be that it all came down to support contracts internally between Google and the Nexus device suppliers (the Nexus 7 blobs come via Asus, the Nexus 4 was an LG device that used the same Qualcomm chipset IIRC.) but that’s the kind of detail that end users really don’t care about: both were Google devices that Google sold & from the point of view of the end user Google dropped support for one device for no obvious reason as far as the end user can see.