Re:Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
by jamesfrank on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:04PM
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There may be some truth to that for the type of person who reads HN, but it's certainly not true for the wider public. Most people don't care about having full control of their mobile device, they just want it to work.
Re:Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
by gcb on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:54PM
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exactly. and for them both this discussion and the long term support is irrelevant.
Re:Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
by jessedhillon on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:35PM
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It's not irrelevant to them -- it's a concern that they are unable to articulate.
Anecdotal support: for the Android users I know who fall into this group, it manifests as a vague set of complaints -- certain apps don't run, had to take it into the store a lot, app claiming to be available for Android not available for their phone -- which are all symptoms of having what is called here an orphaned phone.
So yeah, they don't know or care whether they are running version 1.x or 2.y. But they do know that they are generally dissatisfied with their phone.
they are different leagues.
The people that consider an android or ios as equals and decide on device color or price won't even know what this table is about.
history is repeating. iOS is a IBM mainframe. with it's golden cuffs. Android is the radio shack PC. with it's "require soldering".
i give that android is still in it's infancy. and that the availability of OSes are few. just like in the beginning of the PC era all you had was BASICshells. all you have now for android is Android and some slighly different shells. but soon an android device will be like a PC. you can choose your linux distro. and then you will have the option of having full control of your mobile, just like you have of your servers.