1) So let's go with the iPhone 12. Or the 11. Or iPhone XR from 2018, which just got iOS 17. 2) I don't get why people keep lecturing a guy who built AOSP prod

1) So let's go with the iPhone 12. Or the 11. Or iPhone XR from 2018, which just got iOS 17. 2) I don't get why people keep lecturing a guy who built AOSP products with wildly wrong understandings of Android's update structure Browser, Mail, and Messages are all baked into AOSP just like iOS... they're just so awful they mostly stopped getting updated: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/ You're instead referring to Google Play Services alternatives, which get updated but also don't represent the headline features that get announced with new Android releases. > Most users would not see difference between major releases anyway Absurd take when Google spends literal millions marketing the new features native to Android releases (not app releases, Android releases) And in less than a year the binary blobs running half the phone in your pocket will no longer get updated, so it elevates from being a feature issue to being a security issue.