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The big problem with Android is the lack of updates for popular phones. Love it, or hate it, cyanogen does address that. More significantly, manufacturers have
by Alterlife 12y ago
The big problem with Android is the lack of updates for popular phones. Love it, or hate it, cyanogen does address that.
More significantly, manufacturers have tested the waters with cyanogenmod devices -- oneplus one, Oppo n1, Micromax's Yu Yureka. I for one would be more likely to buy a cyanogenmod supported phone than a 'touchwiz', 'optimus' or "Windows 8" phone if I was assured of two year updatability.
And how would this help Microsoft's bottom line? Android... with Bing.
- pests 12y agoNot only Bing but Microsoft could roll out their own api-equivalent to Google Play Services in order to support third-party apps developed with a dependence on the Google ecosystem.
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- fpgeek 12y agoFor popular devices, the bottleneck with Android updates isn't really the resources to develop them, it's the carrier certification process. You can see that when the same device gets updates on some countries/carriers and not others. CyanogenMod doesn't address that, it just evades it via unlocked bootloaders and flashing. The more official they try to be, the more they will run into the same problems.
- yuliyp 12y agoWhy is carrier certification a thing? The carrier supplies a SIM card and as long as the device cna properly use its antenna and the SIM card the carrier should not need to do anything else.
- Infinitesimus 12y agoAmong other things, 'carrier certification' also includes installing 5-10 apps the user will never use and adding restrictions they deem fit. Plus, the certification is to make sure that the device updated doesn't bork the phone's service (or so I'm told, no experience in that industry)