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Comment by Grognak | Hacker News Reader

Galaxy Nexus isn't supported? Got a source on that? If so, that's really disappointing :\.

> "Android 4.4, KitKat, which comes on Nexus 5, will also soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks."

Hopefully they get it working for the Galaxy Nexus somehow, mine has been a crapshoot for memory recently with Chrome just randomly restarting at times.

We'll see ports to the GNex by various teams soon enough, although it is a bit of a shame Google are not supporting it themselves, that leads me to believe they tried and failed to make it work properly.

That's a bit odd, though, as 4.0 works almost perfectly on my Galaxy S, and 4.3 runs "okay". The smaller memory footprint should make 4.4 work great in theory, but it might not be a memory issue at all.

Google stated they have a 18 month support period in one of their posts, so it's just a matter of not committing to too much.

That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy Nexus have to go through the carriers, Google can't really say how soon the updates will go through, or if they ever will.

The Galaxy Nexus doesn't go through carriers unless you're on Verizon (or maybe Sprint). It was sold through Google Play (and given away at developer events like I/O) completely unlocked.

Here are the images Google has supplied for this device in the past:

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju

Leaving it out of Google's announcement feels a lot like an implicit deprecation to me.

My bad, I have the Galaxy Nexus through Verizon and assumed it was the same for other carriers. I forgot it was available unlocked through the Play store. I'm used to ignoring all of the news from Google and waiting an extra 6+ months for every update.

There is a FAQ page that confirm the deprecation of the support of the gnex : https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085

Well, I'm a little bit disappointed, I hoped to have the update too.

That says they support for 18 months, but the Galaxy Nexus was available from Google Play as late as July 4[1] - that's less than 18 months.

[1] http://www.redmondpie.com/galaxy-nexus-pulled-from-google-pl...

This statement pretty much covers it:

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085

Thanks for the link. That's really a shame considering they titled the post "Android for all" and made a big deal out of Kit Kat's small memory foot print. Memory has been pretty tight on my Galaxy Nexus, those optimizations would have been nice. I guess I'll have to wait for the modding community to get it working.

"Android for most"

"Android for some"

"Android for the 1%"?

"Android for all ... unless you have a Google phone that's older than 18 months."

... which has been Google's stated policy for quite some time now, so I'm not sure why you feel the need to be sarcastic about it.

Just because it's a stated policy doesn't make it a justified policy or even a good policy. To reiterate what's already been said in other comments here... iPhone 4S, iOS7, etc. etc.

I'm not making a value judgement on the policy. But claiming that Google is contradicting reality is silly given that stated policy.

Android 4.4, KitKat, which comes on Nexus 5, will also soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.

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