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I'll strongly second point 2. As far as I can tell, the biggest issue with ICS upgrades seems to be the amount and sheer complexity of the low-level changes (ne
by fpgeek 15y ago
I'll strongly second point 2. As far as I can tell, the biggest issue with ICS upgrades seems to be the amount and sheer complexity of the low-level changes (new GPU driver framework, move to 3.x kernel, new memory allocator, ...).
I also think Google made this a lot worse by not being more open with ICS development. If Google had been more open with the kernel and drivers along the way, I think ICS upgrades could have been much easier and could be moving much faster as well.
- rogerbinns 15y agoIt took almost 12 months between the Gingerbread/2.3 release and my phone actually getting updated. It has a vanilla Google interface, manufactured by HTC and a small amount of crap/carrierware. They can't do the simple 2.2 to 2.3 upgrade in a reasonable amount of time where none of your reasons apply. Put in perspective - it took about 12 minutes after finding out about a new iOS release and having it on my device, and 12 months for the Android device.
- nextparadigms 15y agoYes, for some phones it takes a lot longer or some never get an update. But I think the discussion here was about how fast can an ICS update come? Gingerbread updates and Froyo updates started rolling out about 2 months after they were released. It took 4 months for ICS to upgrade from 2.3, but about 2 months for Honeycomb tablets. Plus there's the whole issue that manufacturers wanted to renew their skins as well.