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Apparently the driver situation is much different on phones. All the different SoCs need extra drivers, the graphic chips, the display, everything. It's very di
by buster 14y ago
Apparently the driver situation is much different on phones.
All the different SoCs need extra drivers, the graphic chips, the display, everything. It's very different on a PC (where you may have upgrade problems as well, if you have hardware that has no drivers for your new OS) and it's especially easy for a Mac.
- zurn 14y agoAnd that part of Android is largely closed source, so phone vendors are on the mercy of chipset makers, who might not have updating drivers for previous generation hardware as their most important mission.
- mtgx 14y agoPlus, I think Google made a terrible mistake in the beginning by not asking manufacturers to support the drivers for their phones for 2 years or more. It would've been even better if they convinced them to make all drivers open source, although that might've been a lot harder to do.