Google needs to fix the broken AOSP model. I did a post about this a few months back (http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/), but the TL;DR is that Android needs to be a lot more like Windows: 1) Install the base, 2) install the drivers, you're done.
It's a little more difficult with embedded hardware, yes. But Google could create a standard source-package format and cross-compiling tool-chains to simplify this process. Or they could do something like the VESA standard for x86 to ensure you'd always have a display.
Google -> Manufacture -> Carrier is asinine. The first thing any power user does with a Windows laptop is wipe it, completely, and reinstall from his or her MSDN copy using the serial number from that laptop. Even non-power users still get all the standard Windows updates without any help from Dell, HP, etc (plus the bonus of bloat/spyware updates from said manufactures).
Even if Google didn't want to retroactively do this, they could start with Android O. It's not really in their advantage to, as it works out better for them if people have to buy new shit they don't need every two years to keep getting security updates.
It's a little more difficult with embedded hardware, yes. But Google could create a standard source-package format and cross-compiling tool-chains to simplify this process. Or they could do something like the VESA standard for x86 to ensure you'd always have a display.
Google -> Manufacture -> Carrier is asinine. The first thing any power user does with a Windows laptop is wipe it, completely, and reinstall from his or her MSDN copy using the serial number from that laptop. Even non-power users still get all the standard Windows updates without any help from Dell, HP, etc (plus the bonus of bloat/spyware updates from said manufactures).
Even if Google didn't want to retroactively do this, they could start with Android O. It's not really in their advantage to, as it works out better for them if people have to buy new shit they don't need every two years to keep getting security updates.