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His point seems to be that Google engineers are not getting the same experience as their customers, and that could mislead them. The same thing occurs in gener
by rogerbinns 13y ago
His point seems to be that Google engineers are not getting the same experience as their customers, and that could mislead them.
The same thing occurs in general software development. The developers will often have more and larger screens, faster computers, more memory, storage, faster networking etc than their average customer. And that can lead to a worse than expected experience for their customers.
The poster could explore what Google can do about it. One obvious thing is to make stock Android that much "better" so that consumers seek it out, or at least prod vendors to keep up. The other is to make Android upgradable to the current/best version - a choice Google did not make except for very limited areas (play store and services).
- walesmd 13y agoIf a Google engineer walks into Verizon and purchases a phone, he received one with stock Android installed? How in the world does Verizon keep track of all the Google employees? Do the sketchy early-20 yr old managers with their cracker jack "Small Business" certifications perform the downgrade? I don't know how this would scale very well. Impressive Verizon!
- gte910h 13y ago95% of shitty experiences on android phones stem from tons of people being on 2 year old versions of android, at best. Fix that conundrum, and you will have a lot of your problems fixed with the ecosystem. Perhaps bifurcating the "os" from "runtime" or something is necessary so google can update everyone to the same 'version' of 'android' I don't know where to draw the line, but this is a chief reason iOS eats android for lunch app dev wise.