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yeah, how dare they allow people to have a useful phone for several years at a time.
by beedogs 13y ago
yeah, how dare they allow people to have a useful phone for several years at a time.
- coldtea 13y agoWhat? It's the very inverse: they DONT allow people to have a useful phone for several years at a time, they saddle them with an osbolete OS and don't provide upgrades. It's a very big pain point that Android makers don't provide upgrades for their older devices (even 1 year old ones). For some models they don't provide upgrades AT ALL, and you have to get custom-install on them to have a new Android. That's why (Google's own numbers) older (by up to 3 years) Android releases amount to 60%+ of the CURRENT installed base, whereas on iOS over 80% of users update on the latest version on the very first month of its release.
- bdcravens 13y agoI don't think this is an Android issue, but with the carriers, and to a lesser degree, the handset makers.
- coldtea 13y agoIf it gets down to the users, then it is an Android issue. After all, the Android maker choose to have this kind of collaboration and enable the carriers to do this.