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What would you suggest as a solution? This isn't to suggest it isn't a problem, just that not all problems have viable solutions.
by mdwrigh2 14y ago
What would you suggest as a solution? This isn't to suggest it isn't a problem, just that not all problems have viable solutions.
- jsz0 14y agoThe solution is to take some control back from the carriers and OEMs but Google won't do that because it's Android's main selling point to carriers and OEMs.
- 27182818284 14y agoI don't think Google has used their might as a company well enough to convince the carriers it is their best interests to be more current with their phones' software or in general to do what is best for the customer in order to ensure they keep coming back. Or for example, does Google know that the Verizon store employees in the midwest will try to sell you an iPhone even when you explicitly walk in and say you want the Galaxy Nexus? To use a cliche, that's the situation on the ground.
- nodata 14y agoGoogle is waiting for consumer outrage before twisting the carriers' arms.
- taligent 14y agoSimple. Look at Linux. Look at Windows. You centralize updates of the core OS and build ABIs/APIs for all of the parts of the system that are needed to be extensible e.g. drivers, libraries, shells etc. This model is proven to work and work well. It just needs Google to show some leadership.
- fpgeek 14y agoI'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. The Linux / Windows update situation that is most analogous to the carrier-gated smartphone updates is updating OSes inside large companies. It's the same update process - a third party has to certify your update and then the update is incrementally rolled out to a large number of computers. So how do corporations do with their Windows and Linux updates? Well, I'm using XP and RHEL 5 these days and I don't think my experience is at all atypical...