Google is losing control of Android

Re:Google is losing control of Android by zanny on Sunday April 29, 2012 @07:08PM (#3907412)

This I feel the meat of the problem. When it is easier to upgrade an IOS device over a Windows PC, and Apple supports the same devices for longer than Android (which being a tiny bit open source opens up easy backporting) it is strange that people wonder why no one likes classic Android as much.

Hint: When Siri came out, everyone with a Droid phone wanted it too. When the feature complete competitor comes out in full force, probably in Android 5? they will all be hilariously frustrated with how they can't use it because they have a 2 year old phone.

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Re:Google is losing control of Android by myko on Sunday April 29, 2012 @08:15PM (#3907533)

Any reason Google's Siri counterpart would be limited to new versions of the OS? Most (all?) of Google's core apps are available on older versions of the OS.

In fact I'm not sure I understand why Siri isn't available on the iPhone 4/iPad 2, etc.

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