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Re:It’s time to start paying for Android updates by liquidsnake on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:30PM (#3703897)
The overhead of these phone manufactures comes from their horrible customizations and differentiation practices. I find the idea of paying $10 for the privilege of updating the OS just so I can get the new version of Sense, or TouchWiz, or MotoBlur, or whatever Sony runs now repugnant.

Well, they don't have much to differentiate do they? They all get the same Android, the hardware is pretty much the same between classes of phones (the customer doesn't really care it's a Tegra 3 or a S4) and there are not too many ways you can tinker with the hardware design so they have to add their own interface to make it different.

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Re:It’s time to start paying for Android updates by eshrews on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @01:02PM (#3704071)
Well, they don't have much to differentiate do they?

I don't think anyone chooses carriers based on the phone's bloatware (although maybe on the lack thereof), so I don't see why they need to differentiate at all.

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