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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by cobookman on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:10PM (#14025436)
Google has broken out GMS from android core so that they can do OTA updates w/o updating the OS itself. I do agree this needs to be better, however its also a non-trivial problem to solve.
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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by pjmlp on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:08PM (#14026032)
How is signing a contract, with the respective legal consequences for breach of contract, a non-trivial problem to solve?
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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by DannyBee on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:00PM (#14026569)
Because suing customers is sure to improve things! That's definitely the path to greater cooperation and goodness. Do you really believe any of these companies would sign that instead of going with whatever plan b is? If so, I guess n-gate is right.

But let's follow this silly thread anyway. On average, the lawsuit would take three to seven years to resolve.

Assume they win: great, they get some small amount of damages and everyone stops using Android. They can't and won't ever get the remedy of forcing security updates. It's not even something available.

Assume they lose: great, they get nothing and everyone stops using Android.

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What did this solve again?

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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by pjmlp on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:05PM (#14027652)
Let them stop selling phones with Android, create their own forks and lets see whose devices the public will bother to buy.
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