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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by philistine on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:40PM (#30088735)
It's fascinating that Google, the stewards of Android, have refused to solve any of those problems. The most successful operating system in history is managed by a company who refuses to solve its deficiencies.

Compare with the second most successful platform, and how Microsoft has been solving problems for decades while maintaining their first commandment: Thou shall not break backwards compatibility.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by throwaway7033 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:31PM (#30110061)
> It's fascinating that Google, the stewards of Android, have refused to solve any of those problems. The most successful operating system in history is managed by a company who refuses to solve its deficiencies.

I wouldn't say that they've refused to solve its deficiencies; Google is not to blame for nor do they have any control over the Linux kernel's development practices. The kernel developers don't want to have stable APIs and the natural result is that out-of-tree drivers are poorly supported.

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