What’s getting yanked is that older phones won’t connect to Android Auto enabled vehicles if the phone is running Android Nougat. It must be Running Android Oreo or later.
For those not remembering, Nougat was released in 2016 and went out of support in 2019. By the most recent metric (Dec. 2022) about 4% of all Android devices currently run Nougat. So this will affect all fifteen of the people still running this OS.
Most devices that were originally sold with Nougat have an upgrade path to Oreo. The bigger problem is folks who purchased devices with Marshmallow (orig. 2015) or Lollipop (orig. 2014) who stopped receiving upgrades past Nougat. These are the devices that will most likely be impacted by this change.
Personally, I like to keep my devices for at least five years, so them deprecating 2016 and earlier is okay with me.
On the one hand: I don’t see a reason for Google to keep supporting old versions.
On the other hand: pushing an update to an old device and sabotaging it by showing an “install updates” popup (as if that’s even possible for devices still running Android 7, that’s bullshit) is just dickish.
The old version of Android Auto works perfectly fine. Show a popup once if you want (“your device will no longer receive Android Auto updates, third party apps may stop working”) but don’t actually disable anything that’s working perfectly fine.
Google pulled that shit before. I would understand if they had a customer support department that’d get flooded when newer hardware stopped working, but all Google has is a forum that no Google employees ever pay any attention to.
What’s this is version numbers?
I don’t know if this whimsical naming thing works for other brains but between android, debian, R, etc, etc, it no longer registers for me…
What’s getting yanked is that older phones won’t connect to Android Auto enabled vehicles if the phone is running Android Nougat. It must be Running Android Oreo or later.
For those not remembering, Nougat was released in 2016 and went out of support in 2019. By the most recent metric (Dec. 2022) about 4% of all Android devices currently run Nougat. So this will affect all fifteen of the people still running this OS.
Most devices that were originally sold with Nougat have an upgrade path to Oreo. The bigger problem is folks who purchased devices with Marshmallow (orig. 2015) or Lollipop (orig. 2014) who stopped receiving upgrades past Nougat. These are the devices that will most likely be impacted by this change.
Personally, I like to keep my devices for at least five years, so them deprecating 2016 and earlier is okay with me.
On the one hand: I don’t see a reason for Google to keep supporting old versions.
On the other hand: pushing an update to an old device and sabotaging it by showing an “install updates” popup (as if that’s even possible for devices still running Android 7, that’s bullshit) is just dickish.
The old version of Android Auto works perfectly fine. Show a popup once if you want (“your device will no longer receive Android Auto updates, third party apps may stop working”) but don’t actually disable anything that’s working perfectly fine.
Google pulled that shit before. I would understand if they had a customer support department that’d get flooded when newer hardware stopped working, but all Google has is a forum that no Google employees ever pay any attention to.
I don’t think you understand how percentage works.
All 120 million, actually.
How many of them have a compatible car, and are using it?
The odds are as lot of those devices aren’t even phones.
What’s this is version numbers? I don’t know if this whimsical naming thing works for other brains but between android, debian, R, etc, etc, it no longer registers for me…