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I misread the title. The article is about the rate of adoption of new releases. Personally, I think it's due to people keeping their phones longer (and, of cou
by gniv 7y ago
I misread the title. The article is about the rate of adoption of new releases.
Personally, I think it's due to people keeping their phones longer (and, of course, carriers not passing on the major updates).
- chrisseaton 7y ago> I think it's due to people keeping their phones longer Why can't the old phones run the new versions of Android? There's been no architecture change has there?
- c0vfefe 7y agoMore bloat than the old hardware cam handle.
- mandevil 7y agoThey (mostly) can, just the various companies involved have no incentive to actually do the work necessary to do it. Treble is supposed to make upgrades easier, but as the article points out, most people don't have Treble, and the carriers and manufacturers still don't seem to care, even with a lower amount of effort involved.
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- jrochkind1 7y agoI suspect a lot of it is people keeping phones longer too. Hypothetically old phones could get updates... but it doesn't work that way, does it?
- all2 7y agoOld phones don't make manufacturers money. I think it would be interesting to try and decouple the OS from the hardware in the same way Windows has been decoupled from computer manufacturing. Let the manufacturers do what they do best (make slick hardware) and let the OS developers do what they do (make slick OSs). As it stands now, every phone maker has their own flavor of Android, and updates for proprietary stuff doesn't make sense to companies that make money from new phones.