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I agree with the theme of your post, but I think it's often overlooked that Android doesn't necessitate full operating system updates to deliver new functionali
by thedougd 3y ago
I agree with the theme of your post, but I think it's often overlooked that Android doesn't necessitate full operating system updates to deliver new functionality as iOS does. Owners will regularly receive updates to basic apps such as phone, calendar, contacts, etc. through the on-going Play Store updates, even after 3 years.
- BoorishBears 3y agoThis often gets brought up, but it's only because of a similar ill-discipline to what the comment you replied to is talking about. AOSP has basic apps for all of those use cases, but presumably because it's much sexier to work on closed source in-house apps that get to be updated as often as the team feels like instead of being forced to work in the margins of the OS update schedule... they languished to the point of unusability. I'm not even sure if they'd all run on the latest version of Android, some of them are still using Kit-Kat era UIs last I checked
- Xeamek 3y agoIt's not only that they are outdated, phone app was officially deprecated this year and I'm pretty sure it was the last one, so now android 'core apps' are officially dead
- IshKebab 3y agoIt really only has that because it is so difficult to distribute Android OS updates.
- myko 3y agoIt's the superior way to do it, in my opinion. I was fighting SwiftUI released with iOS 13 until last year, and will not be able to use the much improved Navigation system released in 16 for another couple of years. Meanwhile Jetpack Compose worked pretty much flawlessly on even old Android devices.
- x0x0 3y agoBut the phone is still worthless and unable to be used once it stops getting security updates. eg google killed my last pixel by cutting off security updates like one month before a full login bypass was discovered. I mean cute, I could still get updated apps... but anyone in possession of my phone could login as me.