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How could Google create an incentive for carriers to upgrade the devices? Ask users to pay $10 for updates?
by nextparadigms 14y ago
How could Google create an incentive for carriers to upgrade the devices? Ask users to pay $10 for updates?
- ajross 14y agoMy preference would be to cleanly separate the API levels such that Android "compliance" requires the ability to update core components. But that's a software engineering problem, because right now the frameworks are evolving alongside driver and middleware stacks such that you can't just drop an "ICS" OS stack on top of a "Gingerbread" kernel and drivers and expect it to work. Apple's answer, of course, is "... or else you won't get the next iPhone."