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Stock Android or customized? New survey reveals what people really prefer.
Stock Android is pretty basic compared to the most popular skins, but it looks like most polled readers don't mind at all.
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority
Phones running stock Android are a dying breed. Sure, phones from Google, Motorola, and a few other brands have a stock-like aesthetic, but they add plenty of features you won’t find in a pure, unfettered version of Android.
Colleague Ryan Haines recently wrote that a light Android skin isn’t the same thing as stock Android. He added that you’d have to strip out loads of Pixel-only features if you wanted a Pixel running truly pure Android. We also used the article to ask readers whether they’d use a phone with stock Android, and here are the results.
