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> My understanding from the outside is that Google likes to pretend that AOSP is sufficient for antitrust reasons but really wants to control everything directl
by sangnoir 4y ago
> My understanding from the outside is that Google likes to pretend that AOSP is sufficient for antitrust reasons but really wants to control everything directly;
I never worked at Google either - but having an evergreen Google Play service seemed necessary to overcome the greatly exaggerated Fragmentation problem by back-porting what had been OS features to older Android versions. Previously, Android OEMs and their vendors - especially Qualcomm - had no incentive to provide driver updates for already-sold units, so that tended to never happen. Cue the tech press, Apple and developers loudly bemoaning "Fragmentation!!1!"