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Well, for one they got manufacturers to adopt Google branding for Android phones, but then we're led to believe that getting them to update on time was hard. Bu
by ksk 10y ago
Well, for one they got manufacturers to adopt Google branding for Android phones, but then we're led to believe that getting them to update on time was hard. But from Google's POV, the only "necessity" here is that Google gets your data and tracks you.
- dpark 10y ago> but then we're led to believe that getting them to update on time was hard "Led to believe"? Is there any dispute about the fact that most Android manufacturers deliver major updates very slowly and often not at all?
- ksk 10y agoSo apparently "phone manufacturer must preload all Google applications" and "phone manufacturer must set Google as default search engine", and "Google network service must be preloaded" made it in the contract, but "phone manufacturer must update the phone" didn't. Those sneaky phone manufacturers !!
- mattnewton 10y agoThose things you listen actually make less work for the manufacturers, and speedy updates make more work - that solves the mystery for me at least.
- ksk 10y agoOh, its not a mystery at all. Its just odd to come across people (in general, not you) who still think an advertising company would care all that much about their users (who are not their customers anyway). But yes, they're quite far from being the worst in this aspect.
- mattnewton 10y agoWell I'm guilty of that same conception too. Why are the two at odds? Google wants to own the best platform for users out there. Engineers want to work on the best, app developers want to work on the best, and users want to use the best they can afford.
- rtkwe 10y agoThey can care for selfish reasons. If android is completely riddled with bugs and is constantly compromised users will use a different phone system. Even outside security issues being able to roll out new features to people keep them from switching to iOS or Windows Phones.
- dpark 10y agoClearly lack of updates is not meaningfully hindering Android's success.
- dpark 10y agoMaybe "fast updates" is a standard clause in the contracts and device manufacturers are simply doing a bad job and Google doesn't want to piss off all its partners by litigating this.