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They've made a lot of those kinds of promises -- they don't often deliver, so parent poster is right to feel uneasy about future support.
by guywithabike 14y ago
They've made a lot of those kinds of promises -- they don't often deliver, so parent poster is right to feel uneasy about future support.
- exhilaration 14y agoNo, Google keeps its promises when it comes to supporting old devices - Jelly Bean will be released in mid-July for the Nexus S, a phone first shipped in Dec 2010. It also got the ICS upgrade months ago. It's the other Android manufacturers - Samsung, HTC, etc - and the mobile carriers that approve each OTA update that often don't fulfill their promises.
- bratsche 14y agoGoogle promised like two I/Os ago that they were solving the fragmentation problem with some kind of new agreement with device makers, but after that we never heard another word about it. Maybe it's not Google's fault, but that seems like it's skirting the issue: a year after ICS was announced, something like 7.5% of devices are using it, and now we're moving on to JB. We can sit around and blame Samsung and HTC all day, but Google is the steward company of Android and this fragmentation is a real problem that affects developers. If it's creating a shitty situation for developers, it's creating a shitty situation for users.