It's increasingly difficult to believe anything Google says about bringing even a semblance of order to the Android...
Originally shared by Dan Gillmor
It's increasingly difficult to believe anything Google says about bringing even a semblance of order to the Android ecosystem. This goes double when it comes to ensuring that buyers of Android devices don't get royally screwed by the people who sell them.
The fact is, buyers can almost count on being treated like doormats. The latest example comes from the hardware company Google bought -- Motorola. My current phone, which I purchased in part because Motorola had explicitly promised to update the operating system to Android 4+, won't be getting the upgrade after all despite having more than enough hardware power to run it well.
This feels like bait and switch. The pious apologies from Motorola's management (in the linked story) are insulting, though the offer of $100 off another phone takes insults to a new level.
No, Motorola/Google, I'm not buying another one of your phones. I don't trust you to keep your word anymore.
I'll probably install a ROM Android 4.1 when I trust that it works well enough, though the limited sales of my Motorola phone may ensure that the ROM will be less stable than it would be for more popular models. Or I may just move to another phone entirely.
This is the second time I've been orphaned by a cynical hardware maker and/or carrier that can't be bothered to upgrade perfectly useful hardware to a newer version of Android. Sadly, Google itself doesn't care enough to keep its own word about policing the ecosystem, so my choices are growing more limited by the day.
By comparison with Google and the Android hardware makers, Apple is a paragon of treating buyers right. I won't move to iOS for other reasons, but one thing you can count on when Apple updates an OS is that it will work on recent devices, period. Older Apple devices may not be supported in full, but even they'll get some of the benefits of the update unless they're much older.
This is the second time the Android ecosystem has let me down in this way. It brings to mind the old saying: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
I've been expecting Google to fix the problems it's created for its end-users. Shame on me.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57526994-94/android-users-outraged-over-motorolas-broken-promise/
It's increasingly difficult to believe anything Google says about bringing even a semblance of order to the Android ecosystem. This goes double when it comes to ensuring that buyers of Android devices don't get royally screwed by the people who sell them.
The fact is, buyers can almost count on being treated like doormats. The latest example comes from the hardware company Google bought -- Motorola. My current phone, which I purchased in part because Motorola had explicitly promised to update the operating system to Android 4+, won't be getting the upgrade after all despite having more than enough hardware power to run it well.
This feels like bait and switch. The pious apologies from Motorola's management (in the linked story) are insulting, though the offer of $100 off another phone takes insults to a new level.
No, Motorola/Google, I'm not buying another one of your phones. I don't trust you to keep your word anymore.
I'll probably install a ROM Android 4.1 when I trust that it works well enough, though the limited sales of my Motorola phone may ensure that the ROM will be less stable than it would be for more popular models. Or I may just move to another phone entirely.
This is the second time I've been orphaned by a cynical hardware maker and/or carrier that can't be bothered to upgrade perfectly useful hardware to a newer version of Android. Sadly, Google itself doesn't care enough to keep its own word about policing the ecosystem, so my choices are growing more limited by the day.
By comparison with Google and the Android hardware makers, Apple is a paragon of treating buyers right. I won't move to iOS for other reasons, but one thing you can count on when Apple updates an OS is that it will work on recent devices, period. Older Apple devices may not be supported in full, but even they'll get some of the benefits of the update unless they're much older.
This is the second time the Android ecosystem has let me down in this way. It brings to mind the old saying: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
I've been expecting Google to fix the problems it's created for its end-users. Shame on me.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57526994-94/android-users-outraged-over-motorolas-broken-promise/
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