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Let's make android only one. stop the run behind every few years releasing new android versions

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Jayanta Ghosh

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I am fed up to get running behind latest Android version coming every few years and I believe you are too.

What I want is that Google starts giving update to give new features to android smartphone just like windows.
If windows can stop at windows 10 and give new features with updates why not Google.

I hope you understand. There are many smartphone we like but because of latest Android releases we have to switch over them to latest smartphone.

Let's end this and make Google understand for one unique android is with updates for features and finally no more run behind new smartphone every few years.
 
Technology never stands still. That's a fact of life.
Things become obsolete, new releases are made. Nothing is supported forever.
Generally this is a good situation, because over time, things improve.
And there's no compulsion, or requirement to buy new phones. I'm still using my Nexus 5. It remains on Android 6, but so what? It works. I even use it for app development.
 
Actually Google has already been doing something like that, by moving a lot of features that used to be part of the OS into Google Play Services, allowing them to be updated even if the manufacturer doesn't build a more recent OS for their phones.

But this has limits: not everything can be done this way. And eventually if the manufacturer doesn't update the base OS even those things that are included here won't be updateable. And when the manufacturer adds stuff to the base OS nobody else is going to update that.

There's still the basic fact that lower level stuff has to be built for the hardware, which means the manufacturer is involved. Changing the naming won't alter that.
 
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Actually I misread the whole point of the OP's post.
Yeah, a more modular Android would be nice. But you wouldn't bet against Google throwing the whole lot away, and redesigning it from the ground up.
 
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Actually I misread the whole point of the OP's post.
Yeah, a more modular Android would be nice. But you wouldn't bet against Google throwing the whole lot away, and redesigning it from the ground up.
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You mean the long-rumoured project Fuschia? Or the previous such rumour that they were going to replace it with ChromeOS?

It's a big risk though. Remove the ability of the vendor to modify the OS to their taste and Samsung will probably walk. Close the source and the public might not notice but many current enthusiasts will walk. Sooner or later they will replace it (even if they don't change the name), and it would be nice if there were greater modularity to reduce the amount left to the mercy of the vendor. But unless they do something radically different (which to go all the way would require either greater control of hardware design or more resources for the OS builds) there's still going to be an element of "the vendor doesn't think it's profitable to provide an update" there.
 
There's Android One, where the manufacturer designs, makes and brands phones as their own(unlike Google Pixel or Nexus), but Google makes and does all the software themselves, and pushes updates directly to the device. Phones like the Xiaomi Mi A1, where all OTA updates come directly from Google and not Xiaomi, and it isn't customised for specific carriers either.
 
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That depends: if you could remove the "fragmentation" argument without much cost it might help some.

But if it means giving up some identity and control (as Android One does) then some manufacturers won't do it. There might even be some who believe that stopping updates will increase sales; actually I don't think most of the public care - anyone who visits a place like this already takes more interest in such things than most, and we often see members who want fewer updates, so overall I doubt this is as big a concern as enthusiasts often paint it.
 
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