lmao 2015 Nvidia Shield TV was on Android TV 11 while CCWGTV is on Android TV 10? that's tragic
No, it just isn't a vital change. They tend to skip several versions because most of the mainline Android updates don't add enough valuable functionality to Android TV to make it worth all the work rebuilding everything for it. They usually wait until it either brings something major enough to the table, or the old version becomes so unsupportable as to necessitate it. It's not an indication that they're dropping it.
As long as the device still supports Kodi and Plex I don't care what version of android it is on.
Perhaps because they are going to skip Android 11 and 12 and jump directly to 13 which will bring all the features from those versions plus Picture in Picture which is not available in none of the previous Google TV iterations among other features that 13 will bring.
Picture in Picture has been present since Android TV 7 but has not been present in Google TV even though it's the same OS.
Wow you must have amazing support to get 10. Every Sony tv I come across, both old and new are on androd 9. I know of very few devices on anything after that. To be honest I didn't think they were doing anything newer for android tv.
My Hisense still has Android 9. It's from 2019 IIRC.
Only the Nvidia Shield has been updated to Android 11 so far and maybe some new devices will ship with Android TV 12 but all in all there is not much reason to update this device unless they skip 11 and go to 12 for 4k UI and auto refresh rate switching. Plenty on the CCwGTV gets updated without firmware updates.
They never update the Android version with the GCwGT
It's because Android is a fraud. The great "open-source" OS that was supposed to free us all from telco and vendor tyranny spectacularly did NOT do so.
It's an incompetent shitshow. Aren't you glad that it's the only alternative to iOS?
Nobody is.
Hey that's what Google does best, created a product then cans it 1-2 years later, I never knew they would treat their hardware the same way