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Re:Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without... by realusername on Friday September 18, 2026 @10:44PM (#49762801)
> The reason why no one runs AOSP is because the phone market rewards differentiation.

No, the reason is that AOSP doesn't even include a functional keyboard nor a functional call manager nowadays.

AOSP apps were abandonned around Android 11, you can't just keep them as is for real users, it looks amateur.

Even the open-source ROMs came to the same conclusion eventually and developed their own.

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Re:Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without... by charcircuit on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:14AM (#49763534)
>the reason is that AOSP doesn't even include a functional keyboard nor a functional call manager nowadays

No one was using those apps so it didn't make sense to spend time on them.

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Re:Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without... by troupo on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:02AM (#49763783)
So.. The market didn't actually support differentiation?
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Re:Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without... by izacus on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:17AM (#49765942)
The marked used all the different apps available from both OEMs and on Play Store.

Don't be a prick.

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Re:Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without... by realusername on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:51PM (#49768107)
They were used quite a lot at the time, outside of the usual Samsung/HTC, a lot of OEM didn't bother to make their own full app suite, nowadays it's necessary though
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