Re:Samsung’s biggest challenge now is Google software, not A...
by pjmlp on Sunday April 02, 2017 @06:18AM
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Like in the old days, to differentiate the product.
That is the sin of being an OEM, if everyone sells the same Android image, or back in the day the same MS-DOS, there is zero value going between vendor A or B.
Well, there is value, if they cared about the quality of the hardware, but givne that most use the same factories, it is kind of debatable.
However, back then we could just throw away the tapes, floppies, CD, DVDs that were given away in the Bundle X at shop Y.
Now with ROMs we cannot any longer and those pesky apps take space, memory and CPU time.
Worse, buying a clean Android device means paying Google for something that costs more than a computer in many countries, with mere two years of OS updates.
That is the sin of being an OEM, if everyone sells the same Android image, or back in the day the same MS-DOS, there is zero value going between vendor A or B.
Well, there is value, if they cared about the quality of the hardware, but givne that most use the same factories, it is kind of debatable.
However, back then we could just throw away the tapes, floppies, CD, DVDs that were given away in the Bundle X at shop Y.
Now with ROMs we cannot any longer and those pesky apps take space, memory and CPU time.
Worse, buying a clean Android device means paying Google for something that costs more than a computer in many countries, with mere two years of OS updates.