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Maybe they are hoping they'll be able to force ISPs to release upgrades for phones, since that's what's stopping the upgrades, not unwillingness by the users.

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I don't think that's a play that will work. Considering that with the basic apps, the buck stops with Google (they could push something out via the Play store), it's all on them for refusing to support.

Neither the old android browser nor the old webviews could be updated through the play store.

Could they in a modern phone? I thought that was part of the point of Google's slightly sneaky updates to "Google Play Services" -- that it allows them to do their own OTA updates sidestepping carriers.

(See e.g. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-sl...)

The newest version of Android (Lollipop) can update the WebView now.

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/lollipop.html#We...

Not even Google Play Services can update binaries on /system partition. That's the manufacturer's playground, (often signed and checked at boot).

How do you push updates to webview through the play store?

I thought this was just about the browser, not the inbuilt web view functionality. My bad!

No worries, friend :)

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