Re:No one wants yearly Android releases
by gleenn on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:11PM
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I used to get super excited. I've calmed down a lot based on how many bugs there are that I experience on my Nexus 6p. I love this phone, I love Android, but I finally get understand part of the reason carriers drag their feet and reimplement stuff: they expect higher quality than Google delivers. Careful word choice there: expect, not actually deliver. I enjoy the new shiny, but there are some glari g bugs.
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Re:No one wants yearly Android releases
by cableshaft on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:18PM
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Google's OS having bugs is not really why carriers drag their feet to upgrade, that's just a coincidence.
It takes money and time to upgrade all their carrier-specific "value-added"(i.e. shit) software on top of the new operating system, and they hesitate to do it, because they've already got it working, and taking no action is much easier and cheaper than upgrading.
Besides there isn't enough customers yelling about it anyway (the ones who really care only buy the phones with known fast OS upgrade cycles, like Nexus).