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That would require Google to be in a very different business than they are, however. Apple can do this, and Microsoft, but no matter how quickly this gets fixed
by jfb 14y ago
That would require Google to be in a very different business than they are, however. Apple can do this, and Microsoft, but no matter how quickly this gets fixed upstream, there are many more stops the fix-the-damn-defect train has to visit in Android world.
- yock 14y agoWhat makes you say this? How many iOS system apps are inexorably linked to the OS itself (ie. not installed & updated through the app store)? This is a really hard problem. Features that you thought belonged at the system level during design and conceptualization half a decade (or more?) ago have grown to be fully-functional applications in and of themselves today. It's all too easy for us to sit back and think "I wouldn't have linked any apps so closely to the OS" but the situation probably looked very different to the original designers.
- jfb 14y agoSimply that for all the good will in the world, fixes to Android are gated by forces beyond Google's control (by design).