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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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 Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:41 am Post subject: iFixit's Kyle Wiens Bashes Samsung Bigtime |
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This is a good read. I don't have any particular love for Apple, but I do have a lot of disdain for Samsung after buying a Galaxy S1. He is very correct.
http://www.cio.com/article/699517/iPad_3_Predictions_and_Challenges?page=3&taxonomyId=3164
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Will a competitor beat Apple to the punch?
Wiens: What I think is outrageous is, if I were a shareholder of RIM or Samsung, I would ask is it really this hard to build innovation? I'm just shocked at how incompetent some of these companies are.
Look at Samsung, which just released its Galaxy pad and some new phones at CES, and they're running Android 2.3 on them. Samsung has been telling its customers who bought the Galaxy S that they'll be able to upgrade to Android 4. And then they just announced that they're going to leave Galaxy S customers stuck on 2.3.
Why would I buy a phone from Samsung when they completely screwed their customers by not allowing them to upgrade? Right now, the only way would be to buy the Google Nexus phones. Google is making sure that the Galaxy Nexus S is going to be upgradeable.
I don't think [Apple competitors] understand how loyal it makes people when Apple continually pushes out improved functionality to their existing customers. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Waiting for android fanboys to chime in.
BTW, Iphone 3GS, which has been out for almost 3 years, still gets Apple updates. |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:41 am Post subject: |
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Waiting for android fanboys to chime in.
BTW, Iphone 3GS, which has been out for almost 3 years, still gets Apple updates. |
Yes, and each update makes my 3GS slower and slower! |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well I have a Galaxy-S and I'm not a happy customer, stuck on 2.3 with a phone that just keeps getting slower and slower. A year after I bought it all the design flaws (camera position, charging plug position) have become too obvious. And SS never bothered to make a cradle for the S, only for the SII.
At the same time, iOS simply doesn't do it for me. I love some of the Android features and I want more from my phone desktop than a permanently sliding "Start Menu".
Not sure what my next phone will be, perhaps HTC can come up with something in H2 2012. But using a phone in Korea already makes things harder, just try flashing an i9000 ROM on a Korean Galaxy-S and you know what I mean. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:11 am Post subject: |
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http://tinyurl.com/6nfsprx
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Other manufacturers, notably HTC and Sony, have committed to slightly less awful time frames for updating their devices to Android 4.0, but we're still looking at months and not weeks before those updates show up.
The pattern is repeating. The same thing happened when Android Gingerbread arrived in December 2010. Smartphone makers promised to update Android 2.2 devices to Android 2.3. Guess what, those updates are still being delivered 14 months later. You can bet the bulk of Android phones that ship during the first half of 2012 with Android 2.3 won't see Android 4.0 until late in 2012 the earliest.
Why does this take so long? As Motorola explains, the process is not a simple one. First, it has to decide exactly what devices are going to be updated, evaluate whether they can be updated, and then make the necessary plans to devote the resources to make it happen. Only then do developers get to work writing the code. Now, the code needs to be tweaked for different screen sizes and resolutions, for different processors and baseband radios, for different chip makers, and on and on.
Once the code is complete, it goes to wireless network operators for testing. This step in the process can take months. Only after carrier testing is complete is the software offered to customers.
The whole process, from start to finish, can take three to six or more months, and, according to hardware makers, can cost almost as much as developing the original system for the device. |
Sucks for you android users. |
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Carbon
Joined: 28 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Waiting for android fanboys to chime in. |
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| Sucks for you android users. |
Double troll.
Doesn't suck for all of us, tiny. My LG android is getting the update. As for the "bashing"....meh. Samsung have faced worse by far more important people. |
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crescent
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