Why can’t Android phones just upgrade to the next Android version and let the user decide if the version is too slow for their phone and revert to the previous version as there are many phones with good hardware that could still run Android 10 but stuck now at 8 or 9?
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There are several stages for an upgrade to occur.
First, Google writes the new version of Android, tastefully called Sugar Shack.
Second, Samsung, for example, takes the new Android version and adapts it to as many of their phone as the think will need it, ignoring ones too old to be concerned about. (They want new sales and supporting old hardware is persuading many to skip upgrading to the latest and greatest and most profitible.
Third, Verizon, for example, takes the release which Samsung (and other hardware vendors) have adapted to various models they’ve decided to support and adapts it to their network, ignoring the lack of profit from new sales at their Verizon (or T-Mobil, or other) stores.
Fourth, you decide that you can limp along with the old hardware and fail to support the industry with your excess cash which they need and you clearly do not. (/sarcasm)
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