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Android’s Dirty Secret
- xd 15y agoThis article makes absolutely no reference to any sources to back up it's claim. Flagged.
- RexRollman 15y agoAgreed. Even though I am no fan of Android, I call bullshit.
- bockris 15y agoI don't know if the numbers are true but if they are the carriers and phone makers are doing it to themselves. I upgraded my wife's android phone a couple of weeks ago and she picked a Samsung (on verizon). After she got it home and played with it we found it was locked to use Bing. We could not install the google search box and other google apps. It went back to the the store and I paid my $35 restocking fee and came back with an HTC. I few days later I tried to upgrade to a Droid 3 for myself. I didn't like the 'skin' that Motorola had put on it but my original Droid is getting slow and I wanted a new phone. I couldn't buy it because Motorola added a special terms and conditions to the activation process but the T&C were on the internet. You can't get to the internet (even wifi) unless the phone is activated and I wouldn't activate the phone without reading the Moto T&C. Chicken and Egg.
- nextparadigms 15y agoI don't buy it. That's ridiculous. There's no way the numbers are that high. Is John Biggs going to report every "rumor" that someone will whisper in his ear? It could very well be a smear campaign like the one Facebook tried to do to Google. Would some Android phones have that high return rate? It's possible. But 40% return rate on average? That's beyond ridiculous.
- anix 15y agoso far the total number of comments i've read about this article must be in excess of 150 - and i haven't found a single person buying into it. i can vouch for one statistic - John Biggs' research is refuted by 100% of his readers. I believe it is fair to say that it is "excepted" that he needs to do his homework better.