Well, from the phone viewpoint people buy them to get a less garbage-filled android experience. Most consumers don't really expect phones to last forever... because they seldom do.
My comment is still valid for software killed in the mobile space. I don’t know what other people feel but I have a strange feeling that, because they have so much money, anything other than search is built temporarily. All their software, their apps and services aren’t build to last. It’s built for now and later they will abandon to start from scratch. It’s easier to start over from scratch with a new team than to make what’s been built last.
That comes from a shortsighted vision that I dislike.
