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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by Zigurd on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:50PM (#34938661)
It's the oems fault in this case. And they have no excuse. Google has modified the architecture of Android to make it possible for oems to update as quickly as possible, as well as all of the previous efforts to enable updating user-facing features without updating the OS. But it's all still a kludge compared to iOS.

The bottom line is I don't think this is solvable with technology. Google should have gotten much tougher with OEMs once Android got widely accepted.

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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by pjmlp on Saturday February 25, 2023 @01:39PM (#34939208)
They had their chance with Project Treble, and took the decision to make updates optional and not a requirement for Play Store contracts, so naturally nothing changed.

The Android team is the one to blame, several times on Android Fireside sessions they have answered that they rather have the fragementation of the ecosystem where partners are allowed to experiment and come up with new ideas.

Well one of the ideas is to sell newer devices instead of free beer upgrades, with Google's complacency.

I still rather be on Android, because even with them screwing up Sun and leaving it to implode, I like that they push a managed OS no matter what.

Those that unaccept it and keep diving into the NDK with GL based UIs, always get a few scars in the process.

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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by duxup on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:56PM (#34938739)
I agree about it being impossible to solve the update issues with tech.

There are too many benefits for the OEMs to dump phones on the market and not update. No reason to care otherwise so far, sadly.

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