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Couldn't they have the Play Store and/or Google Play Services not work on unpatched devices? That would probably force carriers to update.
by Fargren 12y ago
Couldn't they have the Play Store and/or Google Play Services not work on unpatched devices? That would probably force carriers to update.
- acdha 12y agoI'd like to think so but it seems equally likely that carriers would either push you towards their own stores or tell you that you need to buy a new phone if the message was anything less aggressive than “There is a critical security available which must be installed before using the web. Please contact your carrier to ask for it”
- 9point6 12y agoThey actually do this on a lot of the oldest devices, but probably not for the same reasoning. I occasionally come across phones that are too old to support Google Play Services (<2.2 IIRC), so they're stuck on the Android Market, which no longer works. It would seem that's not made OEMs/Carries feel the need to update them.
- vetinari 12y agoAre you sure? I think that the Android Market on 1.6 (ADP1) still works.
- 9point6 12y agoPerhaps the dev phone has a slightly different situation? I know someone with a 1st generation HTC Wildfire (formerly) for testing and when you the market throws a connection error and refuses to go any further. I've seen the same thing on other Android phones from that era.