Doesn’t this give an unfair advantage to their own Pixel phones? I assume Samsung and others still rely on the open source code to build their roms but I don’t know that much about Android.
It would be rigged if only the Pixel phones running the OEM Android get the newest updates before anyone else.
It doesnt fall under unfair advantage because partners like samsung are on the same level because they too get updates sooner ( through deals with google ). However, this will be a huge blow towards custom roms like lineageos that will now be way behind on updates compared to the rest.
But in the eyes of companies and manufacturers they arent competitors, they are leaches.
And before anyone flame against me, im typing this from lineageos, and will do so for a loooong time
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Doesn’t this give an unfair advantage to their own Pixel phones? I assume Samsung and others still rely on the open source code to build their roms but I don’t know that much about Android.
It would be rigged if only the Pixel phones running the OEM Android get the newest updates before anyone else.
It doesnt fall under unfair advantage because partners like samsung are on the same level because they too get updates sooner ( through deals with google ). However, this will be a huge blow towards custom roms like lineageos that will now be way behind on updates compared to the rest.
But in the eyes of companies and manufacturers they arent competitors, they are leaches.
And before anyone flame against me, im typing this from lineageos, and will do so for a loooong time
Samsung and some other phone manufacturers have deals with Google to access code before public release