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Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

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208 points mohi-kalantari | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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charcircuit ◴[08 Dec 25 17:37 UTC] No.46195181[source]▶
>But in reality, Samsung (and the other Android OEMs) cannot compete with Google and its unique control over hardware and software.

Yes, they can. We are talking about applying provided security patches to source code, and then releasing a new version of their OS. For patches that have existed for months. The time from patch to release should be on the order l of days from receiving the patches to having a validated OS release with the fix being sent to users. It's not the control of Android which makes Google possible to patch their Pixel branch of AOSP faster than Samsung can patch their own. It's that Samsung doesn't care about prompt security fixes so they don't allocate engineers to do the work.

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kwanbix ◴[08 Dec 25 18:14 UTC] No.46195681[source]▶
The problem is that each OEM releases 50 different models per year, vs Google (or Apple) that release 3 or 4 models.
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shiandow ◴[08 Dec 25 18:24 UTC] No.46195780[source]▶
If that truly is an issue then Android is a fundamentally broken OS.

How many different models of PCs get released? How hard is it to patch any of their OSs?

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1. AshamedCaptain ◴[08 Dec 25 19:59 UTC] No.46196839{3}[source]▶
But how are they doing to do the artificial market segmentation otherwise ?

(E.g. Samsung still limits Now brief to latest devices even though it is a 99% software feature + 1% cloud with 0 hardware requirements.)