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If you want Google to update your phone, buy Google's phone. It would seem obvious that OEM phones are ultimately under the control of the OEMs (and the carrie
by seabee 15y ago
If you want Google to update your phone, buy Google's phone.
It would seem obvious that OEM phones are ultimately under the control of the OEMs (and the carriers); it has always been this way. I don't see Android getting updates in the same way a Windows PC receives them until, like the PC, OEMs allow phones to be commoditized and users don't have to root them to install a new OS.
- potatolicious 15y ago> "It would seem obvious that OEM phones are ultimately under the control of the OEMs (and the carriers)" I'd argue this is not at all obvious to lay users. The marketing for Android devices is plastered with its name and logo. Not to mention, users are used to the PC ecosystem - your Dell Windows machine gets updates from Microsoft. So why doesn't your Samsung Android phone get updates from Google? The reality is that, for many reasons, the OEMs and carriers have a death grip on device updates, but IMO this is entirely opposite to consumer expectation, and Apple will continue to ride this point to the bank until someone steps up and fixes it. This reminds me of the way laptop video cards used to be. Your NVidia chipset (that your OEM has no problems advertising and slapping stickers on) will never get an update from NVidia. You have to get updated drivers from your OEM only. Naturally video cards never got updated, resulting in a gigantic compatibility nightmare. Eventually NVidia got the OEMs in line and now issues updates themselves. Google must do this if it wants Android as an ecosystem to have a future.