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Why Does Samsung Get Android Updates So Fast?
- georgemcbay 14y agoThis mini-article missed the obvious reason on the technical side... Samsung phones generally include a SoC of their own making (eg. the Exynos 4), so they don't have to wait around for some external supplier to update binary blob drivers when something in the kernel changes. Granted, I'm sure the SoC group at Samsung is pretty separate from the units that make the actual devices, but if support for Android X.Y.Z is important to the upper level management, it becomes important for all the engineering groups simultaneously. This is quite a different situation from most other cell phone vendors in the Android space who are beholden to Nvidia or Qualcomm or whoever else when new drivers are required.