Not even to fan boy, but half of those are things that android did from the go and the rest have been added or are generally easy to do.
To what end, my 5 year old midrange phone still loads everything instantly (Snapdragon 801). Is there actually any benefit of 'top of the line' mobile CPUs except for mobile gamers?
ipads and iphones are amazing hardware in every other respect but Apple really needs to chill with the ultra-thin fetish.
(same goes for their PC hardware, but the hardware is not particularly amazing there.)
That was an issue with one phone, once, and it was a problem with the battery, not Android
> Not getting security updates after the first year
That's actually solved by rooting since you can update from any source instead of just signed packages
> Boot loop
I guess that could be a problem but I've never had that issue and I've rooted all but one phone that I've had
There's two parts to Android patching - the kernel/Android OS itself - yes, this gets patched with a rooted/custom ROM.
Part two is the hardware drivers themselves, the modem driver etc etc. None of that is patched with a custom ROM. You still have to use the same binary blob/drivers that came with the latest official phone firmware.
When security updates stop for you phone, all the updates for the underlying hardware drivers stop too. So yea, you can slap some bandaids on it, but you're not really up to date even though you might be on a later/more recent version of Android.
If my house burns down, I personally won't care if it's android in general, the model, or the battery in the android phone which destroyed everything I own.
> That's actually solved by rooting since you can update from any source instead of just signed packages
Installing software downloaded from xda-developers is, what I like to call, malware as a service (tm).
I haven't gotten as much mileage on my Android phones as compared to my 4S, but the 4S cost about 3 times as much as the android phones I usually buy and 3 lower end-ish Android phones serves me easily for 10 years with no issues.
> not worry about it.
I’m sorry, but this feels like a lie. I’m not trying to troll here, but most Android IT-level users I know flashed a custom ROM already and actually buy their devices based on whether or not LineageOS has support for it.
Almost all Android devices are non-Google devices, which makes their OEM state bloated with custom sync crap nobody even wants to use but have no choice.
Xiaomi, Motorola, Lenovo, Huawei, HTC ... all force their own shitty half-working synchronization platforms up their users’ phones. And I bet that this happens with major GDPR violations.
As an Android “user” I do not recommend using Android for people that do not want to “worry about it”. And product wise I think that’s a huge quality issue.
