Re: Incredible!
OliverJ you must be a fanboi, I haven't heard such an ignorant comment since the last time one of our Australian politicians opened their mouth
Well, the ad hominem was almost enough to discard your post, but you managed to actually make it worst in the very next paragraph.
Compare this to Android, multiple versions generally buggerised around with by carriers, running on a vast variety of hardware manufactured by large number of OEMs. The fact that Google as managed to get the major players in this market to coordinate regular PATCH updates is a massive feat! I'd love to see Apple achieve that!
You may want to lose that chip on your shoulder fast and learn to read between the lines of a press release, certainly when it comes to Google: until you know that every version of Android is going to be patched instead of only the latest few, and statement on planned obsolescence only displays your biases, not reality.
It is as unrealistic to expect Google to patch all the way back to Android v3, for instance, as it is to expect Apple to go all the way back to iOS 7 and patch things. In that respect, economics and practically do not really differ between platforms.
What IS different is that there are multiple barriers between a Google update and an end user receiving it because of the fragmentation of the Android market, something that Apple doesn't have to work around. Between Google and you is the manufacturer as well as the telco, each doing their own thing and consequently each having to update that "thing" before they can give you the patch. It would be cool if there was a manufacturer somewhere which could give you "raw" Android - a sort of Debian of Androids - and be allowed on air without the carrier messing things up too.
Stick with the facts, and learn the basics of reasoned debate. It may help you when you grow up.
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