Re:No one wants yearly Android releases
by wvenable on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:38AM
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I used to be one of those people but I've really stopped caring. There just isn't enough of a difference between all these releases to matter anymore. Is it going to make your device faster or easier to use? Probably not. Android apps have to run on almost every very version anyway so even that isn't an issue.
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Yeah, I used to be much more excited because Android was playing catch-up on quality for a while. Remember the jump from 2.3 to 4? Just a much smoother experience overall. What a fun time.
Now it's mostly backend stuff as Play Services regroups much more of the user visible stuff. Boring is good too though, just not as exciting
Yeah, but because of that, it increases time to market for Android apps.
As an end-user that doesn't affect me (it does, but it's pretty indirect). The Android ecosystem doesn't seem very healthy to me; it works merely out of sheer effort by everyone involved.