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Yes, I know. My point is that MS wouldn't have anywhere near that much trouble, since they exert more control over the PC vendors.
by metageek 16y ago
Yes, I know. My point is that MS wouldn't have anywhere near that much trouble, since they exert more control over the PC vendors.
- rbanffy 16y agoThere are very few WinMo phones that have upgrades. If this would be as easy as you imply, phone OS upgrades would be more common. Phone manufacturers prefer you buy another phone instead of upgrading yours. The only reason iPhones allow software upgrades is because Apple wants you to perceive them as high-value items instead of disposable ones (like most phones are). Making upgrades easy for the manufacturer would not help much. What would help is a clear separation of OS and application layers that could be upgraded independently. In this way, the core OS would be the hardware specific part and the rest of the platform could become user-upgradable.