I've launched AOSP devices professionally, so I understand how Android is segmented better than most... You spent way too many words trying to downplay some pr

I've launched AOSP devices professionally, so I understand how Android is segmented better than most... You spent way too many words trying to downplay some pretty simple facts: Android OS updates are what contain most headline features lay people recognize. GPS/Mainline cover things that are implementation details as far as they know, and don't cover the binary blobs which are the biggest reason why losing security updates in a year is going to mean the S20FE is forever an insecure device, regardless of what Mainline can deliver or what going with a custom rom does. _ Also Android is extremely far from mature, things like Project Mainline show we haven't even settled on how far Google gets to sink the closed sourced claws of their GPS into the core of it. I mean you've got Android 14 finally adding the APIs to properly support scrolling on high FPS displays. Android had 120hz displays years before Apple and somehow manages to screw up these basic cases because they have no unified product vision to speak of. Maybe Android will be "mature" once Google is done with their iOS-ization of AOSP driven by crappy vendors, but for now the updates are extremely meaningful.