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There is only so many iPhone models there. There are hundreds of thousands of Androids there, on a different platforms, with different chipsets, CPUs and radio.

There is only so many iPhone models there. There are hundreds of thousands of Androids there, on a different platforms, with different chipsets, CPUs and radio. Sure, Google can travel back in time and re-do it's the proper way.

unilynx 3y ago
Or fix it over the three next years, if that is the average lifespan.
not_your_vase 3y ago
There was a short period of time when I thought that they finally solved this problem, when they deferred the browser updates to Google Play instead of being part of the whole OS update. I really thought that they would move everything there slowly over a year or two, and it would stop being a shitshow... but I realized fairly quick how wrong I was.
- wolpoli 3y ago
  Yes, and then Google hyped up project treble but that apparently didn't mean we will get more updates
- pharmakom 3y ago
  That was bout control. They reduced the usefulness of Android Open Source Project without Google Play Services.
scarface_74 3y ago
And yet Wintel figured this out almost 30 years ago.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  Do you understand what the most ARM systems still doesn't have anything resembling ACPI? Yes, Wintel figured this out, after the legacy of IBM PC.
  - scarface_74 3y ago
    And Windows compatibility was a complete shit show before the OS vendor - Microsoft - worked with Intel and the other hardware vendors Google just can’t manage a platform or more realistically doesn’t care to as long as they can serve ads on the device.