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Report claims Google may move to 'privately' develop Android's future

This change is reportedly more of a benefit to Google internally.

Google reportedly "confirmed" to a publication that it will move to "privately" develop its Android OS and slow down its AOSP releases. Rahman states that, with Google's normal public source code releases for the AOSP, the company needs to "spend time and effort merging patches." To avoid getting too technical, Google is required to patch these issues between its internal branch and the AOSP through its normal public source releases.

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