Well, I've found and read the source for the DSP part. The small OS on the modem processor on my current phone actually is open source, and hardly use the modem anyway since I've switched to VOIP for voice and SMS/MMS.
> Google needs to support their own phone past three years
It's not really Google's choice. Qualcomm gives up on their SOCs pretty quickly and unlike on Linux Android's license doesn't force them to publish driver sources.
>We are currently only aware of one user report related to the occurrence of this bug.
Sounds about par for the Android team's awareness of what a steaming pile of cow dung their OS is. I gave up on Android long ago and I'm aware of many reports like this.
This is why I bought a sailboat. All you can do is put computers on her; There's a real limit to how much you can make her function dependent on other people's code.
Yup. This happened to me two years ago. Thankfully I hardly used them for anything important. They started freaking me out years ago and I've moved to self host everything.
People still send emails to my gmail address, including my own family. It forwards to swiley.net for now but that probably won't last.
System software gives you a ton of control over the user. It's easy to say "oops that doesn't work" when they use apps that don't make you money or give you more control. With an app the user would just install something else but switching OSes means work, not just installation but adopting the differing paradigms.