While Apple pushes anti-consumer concepts into the market, Google continues to fatten ” appetites”
Android systems regarding“hardware” devices. A couple of years ago, when launching Android 11, the company introduced a restriction: gadgets with less than 2 GB of RAM must run on the stripped-down Android 11 GO, and models with 512 MB of RAM were completely deprived of Google services - they were simply turned off. Well, just two years later “good corporation” decided to immediately increase the entry threshold by 4 times: now Google services will not work with models up to 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM. In addition, devices that do not meet these requirements simply will not be able to upgrade to Android 13.
And although smartphones with such modestThere are not so many memory configurations left, and Google's lack of desire to optimize its software cannot but be depressing, which is clearly seen in the example of the latest generations of Pixel. But in 2014, flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S5 and LG G3 offered 2/16 GB configurations - and are they so bad against the background of today's Chinese entry-level budgets (fresh Redmi A1, for example)?
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