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Android security: Why Google's demands for updates don't go far enough

Monday October 29, 2018. 11:32 AM , from PC World
If there's one thing about Android that Google desperately wants to fix, it's updates. Unless you're buying a Pixel or an Android One phone, you're never really sure whether you're going to get updates as they're available or, really, at all.It's a question whether you're buying a thousand-dollar Galaxy Note 9 or something much cheaper: What's going to happen to my phone in 6, 12, or 24 months?Now Google is trying to make sure everyone has the same answer to that question. According to a report in The Verge, Google's latest Android partner contract finally includes language that mandates security updates for a minimum of two years, lest the OEM in question lose future phone approval.To read this article in full, please click here
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3316717/android/android-security-requirements-partners.html#tk.rss_a
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