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I understand your point, but I am not sure I agree. The initial demise of the American automobile manufacturers was partly due to the unreliability of their pr
by pyoung 14y ago
I understand your point, but I am not sure I agree. The initial demise of the American automobile manufacturers was partly due to the unreliability of their products.
Regarding tablets, I would think that locking people into a particular app ecosystem would be a higher priority than achieving a high tablet turnover rate. Seems like the money is in the apps, not the hardware.
- zobzu 14y agoIt depends, most of the hardware is not manufactured by Google (even thus it's sold in Google's name) So for example, Samsung, etc, (but mostly Samsung here) see a benefit in having the hardware expire as fast as possible (while keeping the balance of 'not having the customer complain about reliability or performance' and 'not letting the competition get ahead, or too much ahead') Almost a black art ;-)