It's already happening - for example, as mentioned in [0], there are several apps / services which provide abstracted flashlight functionality across phones. T

It's already happening - for example, as mentioned in [0], there are several apps / services which provide abstracted flashlight functionality across phones. The comparison is quite valid, in my opinion - in much the same way that modern web browsers exist which have fixed many of the irritating API issues and abstraction mistakes of their predecessors, new Android versions provide corrected abstractions and a cleaner API but are rarely available. [0]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9213433&postcount=3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9213433&p...