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hey what is up guys I'm Kip VHD here and the other day Google made their keyboard for Android available in Play Store the stock Google keyboard that comes on all the Nexus devices they kind of picked it out of Android and made it available in the Google Play Store now this was not immediately seen as a big deal by anyone I mean you can get tons of keyboards in the Play Store for free even there's swipe there's Swift key there's even third-party duplicates or replicas of the Google keyboard and the Play Store but this is actually a bigger deal than it seems at first because if you look at the timeline if you look at back at what Google's been doing over the past couple of years with Android this fits into their plan and it's kind of an important thing so looking back Google actually has a long and slow but very deliberate history of bringing Android pour apps that were originally built into Android and making them available for everyone officially now when you get an official Google app in a Play Store you know it's going to be updated every time Google finds a bug fix or wants to add a feature and some apps like Google Talk Google search Google Calendar all these sorts of things are already built into Android like Chrome and music and even sound search for Google Play have been built into Android and now are being shoveled off into the Play Store it's subtle but it is very important subtle difference it's about context at this point Google has a ton of apps that they're maintaining and updating through Google Play about 5 or 6 pages in the Play Store of the apps that are just in Android being updated officially from Google as the official developer now there can be replicas or duplicates of others that Google isn't updating so for example the Google clock app and jelly bean it's not in the Play Store it's built into the core of Android but you can grab a third party replica of it from the Play Store it's not Google's but it's about as close as you can get we could as time goes on eventually see all of Android score in the Play Store so the SMS app a calendar app the gallery app the dialer app that people app maybe even the full Android launcher someday officially supported from Google having the Google version is pretty much always better than having a replica of the Google version because when Google decides to add a new feature it'll be added to the Play Store version everyone can get it rather than someone trying to code and make it available for every phone when Google ads it it gets added to everyone but what's more important here is the fact that they're moving it to the Play Store before if there was a bug in a core system part of Android like the keyboard they wouldn't have to roll out an over-the-air update of the entire operating system to fix that bug built into the OS because the keyboard was part of the OS if it was just a small bug they might wait for a whole bunch of small bugs to accumulate and then roll out a larger system update and that's when you'd see your Nexus update for something like 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 but if there's just one major security update that needs to be fixed quickly that can be a bit of a problem because dealing with carriers and getting a major OS update out to everyone is just about impossible so with moving core apps from android to the Play Store and freeing them from the spine of Google and being updated individually one after another Papa pow-pow that makes it way easier for Android and Google as a whole to keep track of everything and update everyone without having to deal with over-the-air updates of an entire operating system so if this Android is becoming what we'd like to call a rolling release and if you're a developer you've heard this term before if you're a software maker you've heard this term there are several different types of rolling releases there are fully rolling releases and there are partly rolling releases Android is pulling itself into the partially rolling releases category it's a partly rolling release because there are so many different parts of Android that are being pulled out of it and updated through the Play Store that actual Android OS updates will be few and far between there will be major overhauls rather than smaller 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 update actual Android updates will be a big deal each time they happen but alongside each of those big deal steps forward there are hundreds of little rolling releases of all the different apps inside of Android rolling alongside those big incremental upgrades it's it's a nice refreshing change of pace because that's not always the case we always see Apple getting a really good job done of getting their new operating system out to all of their phones because they control that really tightly Android is open source they don't control that quite as tightly so slowly taking back Android taking back parts of Android one by into a partly rolling release schedule is it's a smart thing it's subtle like we said but it's smart this is also good because Verizon is especially bad Verizon sucks when it comes to updating phones let's take a look back at the Verizon Galaxy Nexus there was a whole rant video that actually did if you want to watch that I'll put it below the like button but the Verizon Galaxy Nexus first of all it came out a few months after the International Galaxy Nexus Verizon also had their way with bloatware pushed bloatware up on the phone and then had their way with over-the-air updates so they basically held every over-the-air update hostage until they could force their bloatware into it again and make it their way Rison just killed the nexus experience with the verizon galaxy nexus and you could probably say google learn a lesson from that and decided i don't think we want to deal with that again and now they're just bringing out parts of android and dealing with it themselves so Google is taking Android back from the carriers and from the manufacturers mostly from the carriers that have been holding back here over-the-air updates from so long and being able to give them to you faster so there you go good work Google props to you again way to take cues from Apple and way to learn your lesson from Verizon being a piece of crap yeah so there you go thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed it definitely feel free to hit thumbs up below and there's also a subscribe button below if you want to watch more videos like this in the future either way there's been mkbhd thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one thanks you