Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo
by pjmlp on Thursday August 31, 2017 @01:48AM
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It worked for Microsoft to impose hardware designs on PCs, the big difference was that OEMs did not had the source code of MS-DOS and later Windows available to them, to do whatever they felt like it.
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Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo
by thanksgiving on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:45AM
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OEMs can't do whatever they like with Android outside of China PR. They need Google play services.
Yet Google decides, sadly for us, not to use that as enforcement for the updates.
Indeed. Google has the power, and that excuse that Android is open source and therefore Google can't impose anything on OEMs is getting a little old and tired.
If Google would have promoted Android the way it did with Chrome OS (and the open source Chromium OS), it wouldn't be in this situation, and we'd be getting updates often. But I guess hindsight is 20/20. I still wish they did more about the support of Android devices throughout the ecosystem, not just for the highest-end devices.