Google Phases Out Android Things

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As always, the Android platform is a hot mess. This is what happens when you give away an OS for free to drive ad clicks.

It's funny how 7 seems to be the magic number with peak quality and usefulness in commercial OS development before it devolves into bloat and user abuse.

Android 7 was the last version before crazy restrictions like blocking screenshots for Incognito Mode started taking effect.

Windows 7 was the last decent version of Windows before it went downhill with 8 and then going full-on spyware-as-a-service with 10.

System 7 was the last release of MacOS before it started bloating.

OS X Lion (10.7) was the last release before Gatekeeper.

Any others I'm missing?

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