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>>kotaKa+(OP)
Google is doing everything in their power to make me move to an iphone... between shit like this, effectively bricking some old models of pixels with un-rollbackable patches that destroy batteries, closing down the android development process, making absurd testing requirements to publish apps, etc.

Google doesn't make better phones, they were just less hostile to the consumer. That seems to be going away :(

>>gpm+ct
Wasn’t Apple the one actually caught throttling devices with an update to slow phones down under the guise of "saving battery"?

Leaving Google for Apple, and expecting a more open app store, is going to be disappointing. I’m not a Google fanboy by any means, just pointing out the landscape out there

>>james2+Uu
> Wasn’t Apple the one actually caught throttling devices with an update to slow phones down under the guise of "saving battery"?

It's not about 'saving battery' its about preventing undervoltage that janks everything up.

Having dealt with more than one windows phone that didn't have this feature or had it in a bad way (i.e. 520/521 would just 'reboot', 640 and 950XL would just kill an app) I wish Microsoft would have figured that crap out lol.