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I don't believe parent is saying updates come from Play, just that actually getting the approval to ship Play on your Android device requires signing an agreement with Google. That agreement provides the leverage that Google would need to enforce any policy of "updates for x years".

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That don't have leverage... Google is already facing fines from the EU because of what they currently require from OEMs to use the Play Services. Trying to make OEMs accept Google updates is not in the cards.

It's far from clear if the EU complaints would apply to this, which have been strictly about anti-competitive behavior. Which competition would this negatively impact?

I agree the EU should require phone OEMs to update their damn phones. My argument is Google shouldn't and can't do that...

But... Google can, and should. And you shouldn't buy products with Google's software if Google doesn't.

#facepalm Google has NO CONTROL over OEM phones. Sorry... Samsung would would fork AOSP tomorrow and create their own store. You think we have fragmentation now...

I don't know why you and others want to keep repeating yourself but that is not going to change anything. I have no idea what you said in your second sentence.

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