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Re:Fuchsia overview by snazz on Saturday May 30, 2020 @05:41PM (#23365018)
Part of that has more to do with the fact that AOSP is not used nearly as much and updating the default AOSP apps is not a good use of time for Google. The AOSP browser was never [edit: not recently] competitive with Chrome and the AOSP mail app was never [edit: not recently] competitive with Gmail.
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Re:Fuchsia overview by kllrnohj on Saturday May 30, 2020 @06:03PM (#23365162)
> The AOSP browser was never competitive with Chrome

That's really not true, and not how it worked. Chrome was very late to the mobile game (first released 2012, a year after Android 4.0 / ICS was released) and its first few attempts on Android sucked. It was incredibly slow & laggy when it first finally came to Android.

It's obviously not a good use of resources to make two webkit-based browsers both targeting the same market, but it was a complete swap out from one to the other over a relatively short time-frame. It's not like the mail vs. gmail situation where it was actually two "competing" apps for quite a long while.

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Re:Fuchsia overview by nradov on Saturday May 30, 2020 @05:45PM (#23365055)
Yes if no one puts time into updating the default AOSP apps then they will stop being competitive. That seems like a tautology.
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