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  • Another new kernel flaw that Google won't fix for Android users prompts more switching to Apple's i

    BencorcBencorc
    Amen to this article.  More journalists need to CALL OUT GOOGLE on how they have failed update MOST if not MANY of their users' Android OSes.  This is apparently a result of Google's failure to forge stricter licenses and partnerships with the big hardware manufacturers like Samsung and LG as well as the big telcoms.  All of these megacompanies are exploiting Google's 'free' Android OS with absolutely no regard for customers.

    Yeah it's **GREAT** owning a 1.5 year old flagship Android phone with an Android OS that's THREE YEARS OLD.  Google:  can you PLEASE work more closely with your hardware manufacturers?  You don't see Apple people with 1.5 year old iPhones stuck in OS 5.  

    I too used to be an Android evangelist.  Not now!  I am ready to switch back to Apple after being stuck in Android 4.4.2 on a TOP-OF-THE-LINE, QUAD-CORE PHABLET  for almost two years!  What a nightmare.
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  • Another new kernel flaw that Google won't fix for Android users prompts more switching to Apple's i

    BencorcBencorc
    Bencorc said:
    'If you didn't want to be stuck with a start-of-the-art phone running an OBSOLETE version of Android, you should have bought a Nexus.'

    Thanks.  Heard this before.  Should have bought a Nexus.  Got it, thanks captain hindsight.

    You have merely blamed me and dodged the issue.  Millions of people are being sold expensive phones which the manufacturers and carriers (aka Google's licensees) have NO intention of ever updating.  It's called planned obsolescence and Google should be ASHAMED for allowing this evil practice to happen under their license!  

    No, I'm sorry, this was an epic failure of Google's management to allow third parties free reign over "their" versions of Android.   The disastrous repercussions of this moronic decision are unfolding now as millions of device owners remain permanently stuck in "Android XP".  You can't just dismiss this debacle as third-party antics removed from Google's responsibility.  Google licenses Android and had the authority to forge stricter policies.  

    Google's "open", laissez faire approach to Android has FAILED.  The company's management needs to forge stricter contracts with their licensees going forward.  This is an absolute disaster.  I am not the only person who is stuck in a THREE YEAR OLD Android OS who once hailed Android but is now seriously considering switching back to Apple.
    Google doesn't license Android, nor did it force any manufacturer to use it, nor were you forced to buy a phone that wouldn't get updates. 
    Wrong, Google does license Android. https://source.android.com/source/licenses.html

    It just so happens they picked one off the shelf, which is open source.  This decision, for the reasons I mentioned, was a terrible idea.   In short, the decision to go with this license was a disaster because it now affects MILLIONS of people, in exactly the same ruinous way.  I.e., we aren't talking about a hodgepodge of linux users here, who ought to have known the forked distro they installed would someday be abandoned.  These are MILLIONS of people who paid for high-end Android phones, with the expectation they would be included in whatever roadmap Google had in store for all of these Android users.  

    Besides the decision of how to license Android to the manufacturers, Google also has other, behind-the-scenes contracts and partnerships with these licensees (such as the Play Store).  A higher degree of authority could have been and ought to be exercised there as well.   


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