As a point of comparison, Microsoft ships its OS across a variety of manufacturers and largely keeps it maintained across them (give or take some exceptions like enterprise environments & the like).

Even unlocked Android phones purchased independently of carriers have inconsistent lengths of support, so it doesn’t seem to be entirely a result of carriers, so…What happened here?

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    1 year ago

    the same is true with iOS and Darwin.

    In iOS, almost the entire userspace is proprietary.
    In Android most userspace funtionality is FOSS too.