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[guardian5x]

Microsoft also released subsequent versions of Windows, but they still keep updating old ones.

I don't understand why Google hasn't build an update process for Android in the first place. Everyone knows the OEMs won't update if they don't have to.

[jenscow → guardian5x]

I guess it was to gain traction. If they pushed all of these requirements upon the OEMs then perhaps Android wouldn't have been as tempting.

So now they're having to lock the gate after the horse has bolted.

But if you want to compare it with Windows, the early versions of Windows didn't have an automated update process in place either.