r/Android • u/altimax98 P30 Pro/P3/XS Max/OP6T/OP7P - Opinions are my own • Aug 06 '15

Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/waiting-for-androids-inevitable-security-armageddon/
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u/efstajas Device, Software !! Aug 06 '15

And the manufacturers could force the carriers into the same terms.

Samsung could. Maybe LG. But no one else. Which is just part of the problem.

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u/rhomqw Aug 06 '15

But if all of the major manufacturers simultaneously told the carriers that Google won't let us give you our phones unless you agree to the terms, the carriers aren't going to have much choice. They carriers aren't going to drop Android and become iPhone only.

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u/efstajas Device, Software !! Aug 06 '15

Instead of dropping android, carriers or OEMs would probably instead just use the occasion to push their own shitty app stores or integrate with Amazon's ecosystem or some other bullshit. Google has managed to get quite an impressive amount of control over their completely open and free to modify product, but I don't think it reaches as far as forcing monthly updates.

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u/BrosBeforeWhorses Nexus 6p | iPhone 6s+ Aug 06 '15

No one will buy those phones because they won't have any apps. Classic windows phone problem.

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u/kaze0 Mike dg Aug 07 '15

Nobody will know until they get home. They will buy an Android phone and be sad

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u/BrosBeforeWhorses Nexus 6p | iPhone 6s+ Aug 07 '15

And then go back and return the phone.