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Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up?

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Moe DeLoughan <moe@notmine.null> wrote:
> On 8/12/2015 3:03 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> wrote:
> >> On 8/11/2015 10:07 AM, John McGaw wrote:
> 
> >>> Am I
> >>> expecting too much?
> >>
> >> Yes. Compared to the support provided by carriers, Google provides
> >> prompt and timely updates.
> >
> >    "carriers"? Who cares about the carriers. It's at least the (device)
> > *manufacturer*'s job and it *should* be done by Google, which 'writes'
> > and 'maintains' the crap.
> 
> The advantage of purchasing a Google device is that the device/OS has 
> not been modified by a third party, and support comes directly from 
> Google. Google provides 'pure' Android. Everybody else is free to do 
> what they will to/with the Android devices they produce or distribute 
> - but Google is not responsible for keeping modified versions of 
> Android devices current. Thus, there are usually _long_ delays between 
> updates of non-Google branded devices.

  "The advantage of purchasing a Google device" is not a (positive)
feature, it's the (negative) *result* of the brain-dead Android (==
Google) software distribution mechanism.

  It is highly unusual - to put it mildly - to tie the software
distribution mechanism of an OS to the device manufacturer. There is
also no valid reason to do that. Other OSes are perfectly capable of
seperating the general - i.e. the OS itself - and device-specific parts.
I.e. the OS supplier supplies updates for the OS and the device
manufacturer supplies the device-specific updates.

  The industry has been doing this for many decades, but Google 'had' to
invent a brain-dead, non-working method.

  And BTW, there is no such thing as "modified versions of Android
devices" (whatever that may mean)! Part of the software on different
devices may be customized or/and device-specific, but the OS itself is
not "modified", or at least does not have to be.

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Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2015-08-11 11:07 -0400
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2015-08-11 15:41 +0000
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:09 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:32 +0000
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-08-11 15:13 -0500
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-08-12 07:16 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-11 20:38 +0100
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? "Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-08-12 22:42 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-18 21:28 +0100
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 08:55 +0100
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 09:13 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-08-11 15:11 -0500
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-12 20:03 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@notmine.null> - 2015-08-17 13:47 -0500
        Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-17 19:43 +0000
          Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 09:47 +0100
            Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-01 20:40 +0000
              Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-02 07:45 +0100
                Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-02 17:51 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2015-08-18 23:38 +0000

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