What this article points out is that MS has the toughest phone update process in the industry. And for all the whining people do with Android, they may have su

What this article points out is that MS has the toughest phone update process in the industry. And for all the whining people do with Android, they may have surprisingly got it right. Let me explain. Apple's process is pretty easy. They own the phone, firmware, software, etc... It's easy for them to test and roll out. Everyone knows this. Now Android went with a completely different approach. We give you the OS, now you own everything else. The OEMs have to ensure that any update works on their phone. This is great for Android for two reasons: (1) The OEMs COMPLETELY own testing each new build of Android. Google doesn't have to think about Gingerbread, except for systemic issues. And (2) if there are issues on a given phone, it's not Google's fault -- it's the OEMs. MS is in a rather horrible position of delivering the OS directly to the phones thus having to test them as they are responsible for failure. One big problem that comes up here is imagine you have one phone where the update just doesn't seem to work. Are you going to hold up all of the other phones just to get that one phone working? If MS pulls this off, kudos to them. But I don't envy them. With that said, they pulled it off in the PC market, but that market built itself around MS-DOS, rather than MS-DOS coming out the gate with support for multiple manufacturers.