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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.

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.

Have you tried editing text files on iOS and copying them to another machine without an online service? On every other OS you have OpenSSH and some text editor installed already, on iOS the easiest thing to do is install iSH but it's still pretty painful since it's slow and can't see everything.

One of the companies I worked for did. They would always make these vary pretty mockups that would be hell for people to use.

Information density is ugly and it makes software hard to sell. This is part of why commercial software is almost universally crap.