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There is no doubt that Android has become the most popular mobile operating system on the planet, with a market share well ahead of iOS to 90%. However, despite Android's triumphs, it may not be something to celebrate with champagne for Google-Android, which dominates the world, is mostly a customized version of Android, and native Android that can make the most use of Google services and maximize Google benefits is basically rare.

This is a rare occurrence of other popular global operating systems-it's hard to imagine that most of the Win systems on the market are customized versions of tomato garden and rain trees, but that's exactly what happened to Android.

Why did it become like this? After making a popular operating system for the first time and finding a large number of vendors willing to promote the system for the first time, two inspiring things combine to maximize Google's benefits in the mobile market, and the day when Google services dominate the world is within reach. However, why did this happen? Today, let's talk about why native Android was given the cold shoulder.

­first of all, to be clear, native Android does have a huge advantage over vendor-customized ROM in some ways. These advantages are as follows.

­performance. Native Android is arguably the smoothest Android system, and Nexus/Pixel phones are impeccable in terms of fluency, although they are not as configured as some of the flagships on the market.

­stability. Native Android Bug is significantly less, after all, other manufacturers' ROM is changed from native Android demons, the more changes, the greater the probability of problems.

­the unity of design. App has always been designed to follow the design language of native Android-App used Holo in the era of Android 4.X, followed Material Design after 5.X, and only native Android can enjoy the perfect collection of App.

­highly playable. Android "artifacts" developed by developers are generally based on native Android (AOSP), such as the Xposed framework. If you use a third-party ROM, there may be compatibility problems, and native Android is the most playable ROM.

­the speed of upgrade and the security it brings. While native Android gets an upgrade every month, many of the Android ROM customized by manufacturers are still in the same version as they were a year ago.

However, for all the advantages of native Android, its promotion rate is still quite pitiful. For example, for the whole of last year, Google sold only 552000 Pixel phones using native Android-a negligible number for the hundreds of millions of smartphone markets.

­besides Pixel, other manufacturers rarely use native Android-- a few Sony, one plus (oxygen OS), etc., which are close to native systems, do not sell very well. It is not without reason that the market for native Android is so lackluster.

­the function is rigid. As mentioned earlier, native Android performs well, but it has a great disadvantage in terms of functionality. For a long time, native Android lacks the common functions of third-party ROM, especially domestic ROM, such as permission management, background restrictions, caller ID, and so on.

­function is one of the core competencies of Android, and the reason why Android is more popular than iOS is also an important reason. At this convenience, native Android is inferior to custom ROM. This is understandable, after all, Google belongs to the founder of Android, naturally will not have as much energy as other manufacturers to develop a wide variety of features.

­Technical follow-up is slow. The market is rapidly changing, and many new technologies for smartphones require a combination of hardware and software. The update of large versions of native Android and the upgrading of Google phones are basically once a year, and this cycle is a bit too long for some new technologies to follow up.

Fingerprint recognition, for example, was not supported by Google until Nexus 6P/ Android 6.0.Before that, a large number of mobile phone manufacturers had already used fingerprint recognition technology-it is clear that native Android does not meet the need for manufacturers to follow up on new technologies.

­the upgrade speed is not synchronized. One of the big advantages of native Android with Google phones is the speed of upgrade. Some friends may think that third-party manufacturers use native Android, and the upgrade speed can also be synchronized with the official Google. But this is not the case, and even if third-party vendors use native Android, they will not upgrade new versions synchronously around the world, as Win did. The reason for this is that Android doesn't have a huge driver library like Win.

Many friends do not realize what a huge driver the Win system comes with. For example, no matter what kind of graphics card you are using, as long as you install Win, there will be no problem lighting-there is already a driver at work. This is not the case with Android. The ROM released by Google does not come with a variety of hardware drivers, and major manufacturers need to match them themselves, and users cannot load the drivers themselves, so the new system pushed by Google cannot be followed immediately by other devices.

Due to drive problems, the advantage of fast upgrade becomes smaller. Using native Android does speed up the upgrade, but it can't be synchronized, which makes native Android less attractive.

­Google is not well managed. Google's Nexus and Pixel phones, to be honest, don't have much of a selling point in terms of hardware. At the same time, they only sell through Google Play stores, which have too little influence on the market-as do GPE phones that Google has partnered with other manufacturers before.

In addition, there have been a lot of problems in the last two generations of Google phones, such as the death restart of the Nexus 5X, the sudden battery death of the Nexus 6P, the freezing of the Pixel system and so on. It is true that Google is not very good at hardware manufacturing, which makes it difficult to promote native Android through Google phones.

Manufacturers need to build their own ecology. This is an inexplicable interest-related issue. Google wants to take the lead with Android and Google services, and no one wants to eat only the leftovers left by Google. The biggest motivation for various manufacturers to customize ROM is, of course, to integrate their own services. At present, many ROM have become their own ecology, especially the ROM of domestic manufacturers, asking them to give up their hard work and switch to native Android. You got to be kidding me.

­Open source. Android is known to be open source and uses the Apache license. This means that major manufacturers can easily build Android-based branches, and even if Google tightens Android's source code and pushes native Android, everyone can develop based on their own branches, without necessarily following in the footsteps of Google.

­now Google has strengthened its say over Android by moving more and more code from open source AOSP to closed source GMS. The fundamental reason is that open source means that Google will no longer have a decisive say.

­Native Android does have its unique charm, purity, fluency, security. But it can not meet all the needs of consumers and manufacturers. Coupled with the fact that Android is an open source system, it is easy to customize a version that suits you, so native Android is not a popular choice.

­if Google wants native Android to be popular around the world, it will need to outperform third-party ROM, greatly evolve its mobile phone line and shipments, and come with a well-developed driver library-- all of which is too difficult. As a result, native Android will remain a niche in the market for the foreseeable future.

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