Comment by Groxx
2 days ago
Great. So now nobody gets bugfixes until after the main vendors get priority access to it. for six months.
There's no way this isn't intentional hostility towards forks.
2 days ago
Great. So now nobody gets bugfixes until after the main vendors get priority access to it. for six months.
There's no way this isn't intentional hostility towards forks.
> There's no way this isn't intentional hostility towards forks.
Of course it is. But it isn't new. This was declared in March last year. We discussed it a lot here. It's only now that it's going into effect.
You guys are getting bugfixes?
Ofc to the root kit installed by "them", better battery life and WiFi stability.
/s
The security fixes will be published normally.
Security fixes are hardly the only software problems Android has.
The writing was on the wall the day they shipped Doze with GPS as an OS feature.
All those years back I started calling it, since I built software for (long-lived) HMI devices that ran on Android
We were doomed when they stopped shipping a dialer or SMS app in AOSP.
“Phone by Google” is disgusting.
And then Signal removed SMS support so we're stuck with Gogole's crap.
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