vetzki
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Targin schrieb:@elknipso
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Bei Android verstehe ich nicht, warum die Sicherheits patches nicht direkt in das System eingespielt werden können. Bei aufgesetzten Custom roms wie z.B. fulmics kann ich doch auch das vorhandene System patchen! Da fehlt mir das Verständnis!!! Warum macht G. den Kernel und das System nicht patchfähig? Die Herstellerupdates können das doch auch.
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The biggest problem with Android is that the Android OS does not really exist and it's not Google's fault.
Every mobile hardware device running Android is unique in many ways: very different SoC's, very different storage configurations (including a gazillion of storage chips each with different API/driver), very different sensors (e.g. two different Android smartphones may have two "similar", e.g. ambient light sensors but totally different protocols for accessing them).
Every OEM out there does three things to run Android:
- Vendor heavily patches the Linux kernel provided by AOSP in order to support its SoC (including storage, sensors, cameras) and various other features.
- Vendor heavily modifies Android system core so that it could properly run on its hardware.
- Vendor adds its own apps which use specific HW features of their devices.
In order to solve this problem Google must force OEMs to introduce a common ARM platform which will allow to run unmodified/or minimally modified AOSP. Such a platform exists in the x86 world which means you can easily switch between dozens of OSes which support the x86 instructions set. I don't see such an ARM platform coming any time soon.
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Why Android sucks although it actually doesn't