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Android should embrace a Windows-style security update model

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jul 16, 2013

Google fixes Android’s security problems relatively quickly, but the OEMs and carriers are painfully slow to implement them. Isn’t it time for Google to take a page out of Microsoft’s playbook and implement regular direct-to-user security updates?

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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