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Android version 10 has better update tracks than previous versions (project Treble benefits, landed in Android 9), and it keeps getting better, Android 12 shoul

Android version 10 has better update tracks than previous versions (project Treble benefits, landed in Android 9), and it keeps getting better, Android 12 should take less to reach the same user base

michaelmrose 6y ago
10 took a year to reach 25%. It's too early to say anything about the uptake of 11 let alone 12 which doesn't exist. 80% uptake for a new version in 2 years would represent a stunning success. In that happy scenario your billing change still hits 2 years before most app customers have any chance to benefit from alternative stores ensuring that everyone pretty much has to switch over or die. Pragmatically if I was google I would SAY I am making it easier for users to do business with someone else while making it as daunting as possible to actually do so in order to pressure vendors to at best offer both their wares for sale on both stores if they want to actually have customers. Your play store policy can then forbid say offering your goods for sale at a lower price elsewhere or advertising the existence of an alternative version in app on the play store version. As long as you keep it available on the play store most users will check their first and you can keep the revenue in house without strictly forbidding competition.
kuschku 6y ago
And yet the OG Pixel hasn’t gotten any updates in a year now.
- fallennode 6y ago
  The OG Pixel was released in early 2013. ~6 years of software updates is really good compared with any other smartphone.
  - phh 6y ago
    Uh... No... it has been released at end of 2016. It received 3 years of software upgrade, which most high-end Android OEMs deliver, (Though it got 3 major upgrades, while most OEMs stop at 2), and pales in comparaison to iPhones.
- ac29 6y ago
  ~9 months ago: https://developers.google.com/android/ota#sailfish https://developers.google.com/android/ota#sailfish
  - kuschku 6y ago
    That’s weird, my OG Pixel says it has received its last security update on October 6, 2019, and has no updates available

Android version 10 has better update tracks than previous versions (project Treble benefits, landed in Android 9), and it keeps getting better, Android 12 should take less to reach the same user base

michaelmrose 6y ago

10 took a year to reach 25%. It's too early to say anything about the uptake of 11 let alone 12 which doesn't exist. 80% uptake for a new version in 2 years would represent a stunning success. In that happy scenario your billing change still hits 2 years before most app customers have any chance to benefit from alternative stores ensuring that everyone pretty much has to switch over or die. Pragmatically if I was google I would SAY I am making it easier for users to do business with someone else while making it as daunting as possible to actually do so in order to pressure vendors to at best offer both their wares for sale on both stores if they want to actually have customers. Your play store policy can then forbid say offering your goods for sale at a lower price elsewhere or advertising the existence of an alternative version in app on the play store version. As long as you keep it available on the play store most users will check their first and you can keep the revenue in house without strictly forbidding competition.

kuschku 6y ago

And yet the OG Pixel hasn’t gotten any updates in a year now.

fallennode 6y ago
The OG Pixel was released in early 2013. ~6 years of software updates is really good compared with any other smartphone.
- phh 6y ago
  Uh... No... it has been released at end of 2016. It received 3 years of software upgrade, which most high-end Android OEMs deliver, (Though it got 3 major upgrades, while most OEMs stop at 2), and pales in comparaison to iPhones.
ac29 6y ago
~9 months ago: https://developers.google.com/android/ota#sailfish https://developers.google.com/android/ota#sailfish
- kuschku 6y ago
  That’s weird, my OG Pixel says it has received its last security update on October 6, 2019, and has no updates available