How did Android's update support become so inconsistent? - eviltoast

As a point of comparison, Microsoft ships its OS across a variety of manufacturers and largely keeps it maintained across them (give or take some exceptions like enterprise environments & the like).

Even unlocked Android phones purchased independently of carriers have inconsistent lengths of support, so it doesn’t seem to be entirely a result of carriers, so…What happened here?

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t wanna sound too defensive but I did say this

    That takes considerable effort, although if they chose to focus on a select few devices every year, they’d be able to do so.

    I agree that I can reword it to make that clear, but I don’t think, nor do I hope anyone will make that conclusion about FOSS…