Um, as the comment thread in the bug demonstrates, it isn't that simple. Android does support downloading .ics files, you just need to install a third-party ap

Um, as the comment thread in the bug demonstrates, it isn't that simple. Android does support downloading .ics files, you just need to install a third-party app to handle the calendar integration. Is that ideal? Of course not. But it is bog-standard prioritization to close issues that have easy workarounds in favor of issues that don't (and that's before you get to the possible patent complications someone mentions late in the thread). More generally, I'd argue that this is a missing feature in the proprietary Google Calendar app, and not an OS issue at all.