While Apple is pushing anti-consumer concepts into the market, Google continues to feed off the Android system’s appetite for device hardware. A couple of years ago, when launching Android 11, the company introduced a limitation : gadgets with less than 2 GB of RAM must run on a stripped-down Android 11 GO, and models with 512 MB of RAM completely lost Google services – they were simply turned off. Well, just two years later, the “corporation of goodness” decided to raise the entry threshold by 4 times at once: now Google services will not work with models up to 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM. In addition, devices that do not meet these requirements simply will not be able to upgrade to Android 13.

And while there aren’t many smartphones with such modest memory configurations, it’s depressing that Google has no desire to optimize its software, which is clearly seen in the latest generations of Pixel. But in 2014, flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S5 and LG G3 offered 2/16 GB configurations – and are they so bad against the background of today’s Chinese entry-level budgets (fresh Redmi A1 , for example)?

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