If I hack some $50 phone from China and put iOS on it, am I entitled to updates from Apple?
That is completely different from what I'm getting at you're being obtuse to defend Google.
The fact is: Android is an
operating system. Thereby like Apple who has their "iOS" OS in iPhones, they are
responsible for security patches in a majority of ROM's. It doesn't matter if Motorola, Samsung, et. al. customize the ROM. The fact is: The underlying
operating system is overseen by Google.
Anything that is serious (see: SMB problem in Windows) should be handled by the
operating system manufacturer/developer.
What you're saying is the equivalent of: "Well, why would you by a Compaq instead of buying from Microsoft directly and assume Windows would be updated for 5 years with security. Trolloololololololololol." It's dumb.
And to be fair: I do not place the blame squarely on Google. Even before iPhone/Android phones the smart-phone market for fast OS updates was
horrible. I had a Blackberry phone that took
ages to be updated at times because of the telephony company.
The whole industry needs a top-to-bottom reshuffle (AKA: Google
does need to strong-arm the companies using their shit to push out security updates for "outdated" OS's to protect their consumers) to the PC-style (now a days) "push patches out and have the customers be automatically updated because they're fucking moronic and won't do it or update when required."
There's
valid reasons for not updating (the phone gets slower because more bloat/etc. makes it slower) but not providing security patches is such a "
" thing coming from OS's.
Even Linux (which Android is a base of) isn't this insane with having consumers
be behind security patches/updates. But Linux is used by most folks that will willingly deffer updates for the sake of "uptime" so that's a whole-'nother discussion on why "computer literate" folks are just as dumb.
To actually answer the quoted bit: Apple pushes their updates out and if a community like the Hackentosh community was around to do it for iPhones? You can
expect a security update to be reverse engineered and pushed by the community for you to use (if you so choose, but that's outside of what you're getting at) when it happens. Apple
develops security updates for "out of date" OS's if the need arises. Even 10 years after their Intel switch, my PPC Mac Mini was getting OS security updates.
How the fuck do you not support that? You can't go "dumb consumers not buying Google lol" when
Google still develops the fucking base of the ROM for the phone manus.
Basically what I'm getting at is that the
entire phone industry needs to stop pushing "new phone who dis? lol" as a security measure and
actually update older OS's for critical security shit. If they don't want to push new OS updates to the phone/tablets?
Fine, but protecting the consumers
is their job. Even Google's who is the underlying OS maker.