This is my problem with Android. The carrier control of something the manufacturer has released needs to go, but until Google takes a firm hand with Motorola that is not going to happen.
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Android vs iOS Upgrades
Interesting Android ICS statistics and observation on the lack of Android upgrades. Apple’s OTA upgrade process and focused hardware lets iOS 5.1 hit 61% adoption in 15 days… While Android ICS languishes at 1.6% after months…
Continuous carrier crap
Saw this earlier from John Gruber (DaringFireball). John’s right and that’s just sad… The truth is that Ice Cream Sandwich — which I believe is the first truly significant improvement to Android since it debuted — is effectively a preview of next year’s Android for the mass market. – @gruber When a new operating system
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Andy Rubin one Android for all
“I don’t think there should be apps specific to a tablet,” [Rubin] said. He also added that “if someone makes an [Ice Cream Sandwich] app it’s going to run on phones and it’s going to run on tablets.” From ThisisMyNext Possibly a good reason why there’s only been 3.4 million android-based tablets sold and since
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