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Not really good enough. There are massive changes between OS versions. Until a couple days ago, my LG G3 was still on KitKat. The underlying structure, performa
by bonesmoses 10y ago
Not really good enough. There are massive changes between OS versions. Until a couple days ago, my LG G3 was still on KitKat. The underlying structure, performance, and a lot of other significant details are directly tied to the OS and can only come with an OS update.
And we can't get those because carrier stranglehold, proprietary drivers that need to be compiled for every kernel variant instead of using generic hooks, and so on. Android is still Wild West of smartphones, and it's embarrassing that Google's updates are hilariously terrible compared to Apple.
- dave2000 10y agoMost people don't know or care which version of android they have, and it's clear that it's not impacting android's domination of apple in terms of market share.
- edude03 10y agoI don't disagree with you, but I think we've come to expect too much from software updates at the same time. For example, security updates and performance improvements are often touted as the reason we should get software updates more often. However no one expects say apple to replace the processor in your laptop when a new one comes out. Software costs money to develop, most users don't care enough to pay for software updates (would your "mom" pay $20 to have JDK 8 support?) and unless the update enables a feature the vendor expects you to pay for (say, iCloud or Google Drive) no one is incentivized to provide timely updates. On the flip side, software updates allow vendors to differentiate their new phones (yeah they both have A123 processors, but this phone has snapMessage *due to the new update) I think the only other alternative is fully open source phones, which exist, but in terms of updates they're not any better