[Swordmaker]

PING! Google is deconstructing Android. . . taking components out of the monolithic Android and posting them to the Android Play Store so that users with older versions of Android whose carriers don't provide updates can get the upgraded parts of Android. . . sounds like a good idea.

This approach may not get those users the full upgrade to, say Marshmallow, but it will get them the upgraded browser app, mail apps, etc., that would have come with the distribution of Marshmallow.

[AU72]

An IBMer I work with said that IBM is buying Google for 200 billion.
Will check stock movement to see if there is anything to it.

[Bobalu]

I like Android devices because they are so amazingly low-cost!

But the OS upgrade problem is real and annoying. And security is non-existent.

I bought some 10 dollar Android smartphones just to use as IP cameras...they work great. My best friend put one in his greenhouse so he can check on the temp and see what is going on from anywhere using Skype...fun stuff.

The cheap smart phones are an amazing plaything for geeks that like to play on the bare metal. 10 bux for a 4 core device with cameras, SD radios... etc etc. and a good display... awesome.

[tophat9000]

Ok. come on ....this is stupid.... a calculator is part of the operating system?

all it means is unbundling the calculator from the stock configuration

I run my own calculator that I like

why should I be stuck having two calculators in the system wasting space?... one that’s bundled in the operating system and one that I prefer

unbundle it out and that way I can install the one I like

this is very typical Unix Linux whole concept of install your own preferred shells

come on you’re grasping at straws to b**** about something about Android