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While balking at the insult of "fake Android", I think the author is in the wrong about calling AOSP the secondary tree -- many of us depend on it for our Andro

While balking at the insult of "fake Android", I think the author is in the wrong about calling AOSP the secondary tree -- many of us depend on it for our Android updates, after our carriers abandoned us and the devices they sold us. With OS updates coming from carriers and not Google, they become essentially non-existent, and each carrier's fork gets whatever spyware, adware, bloat-ware, and network lock-in they desire, locking phones to their dumb pipe.

brokenlogins 14y ago
That's what this article neglected to target: The dozens of proprietary versions of Android that are dribbled out by each carrier for each phone. I'd like to know how this failure happened. Did Google fail to create a proper hardware abstraction layer and driver model that would allow people to update the OS immediately upon release, as long as the driver model didn't change? Even with the crapware installed by telcos, why can't people update the OS? There's plenty of shit installed on PCs by vendors, but it doesn't all just break if you install a new version of Windows.