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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by justsomehnguy on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:04AM (#37878221)
There is only so many iPhone models there. There are hundreds of thousands of Androids there, on a different platforms, with different chipsets, CPUs and radio. Sure, Google can travel back in time and re-do it's the proper way.
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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by unilynx on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:38AM (#37878332)
Or fix it over the three next years, if that is the average lifespan.
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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by not_your_vase on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:54AM (#37878394)
There was a short period of time when I thought that they finally solved this problem, when they deferred the browser updates to Google Play instead of being part of the whole OS update. I really thought that they would move everything there slowly over a year or two, and it would stop being a shitshow... but I realized fairly quick how wrong I was.
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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by wolpoli on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:19AM (#37878494)
Yes, and then Google hyped up project treble but that apparently didn't mean we will get more updates
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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by pharmakom on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:54AM (#37878826)
That was bout control. They reduced the usefulness of Android Open Source Project without Google Play Services.
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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by scarface_74 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:14AM (#37878467)
And yet Wintel figured this out almost 30 years ago.
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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by justsomehnguy on Saturday October 14, 2023 @08:53AM (#37880102)
Do you understand what the most ARM systems still doesn't have anything resembling ACPI?

Yes, Wintel figured this out, after the legacy of IBM PC.

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Re:Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years by scarface_74 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:14AM (#37880618)
And Windows compatibility was a complete shit show before the OS vendor - Microsoft - worked with Intel and the other hardware vendors

Google just can’t manage a platform or more realistically doesn’t care to as long as they can serve ads on the device.

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