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kube-systemtoday at 5:26 PM0 repliesview on HN

On brand-name android devices you can count on getting OS security updates. The first-party vendor can build and push these themselves. Driver and firmware security updates are a maybe. These often have to come from an upstream vendor, who may or may not care to fix the issues.

Smaller brands often ship budget android devices and never update them.