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Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android

Posted by kdawson on from the fate-of-cuckoo-chicks dept.

loconet writes "This article in Gizmodo claims that Android's fragmented model is harming it, but Google has the power to save it. The rumored Google Phone could be a ploy to upset the wireless industry, or it could be an expensive niche device. Either way, it would be a bid to take Android back from the companies that seem hell-bent on destroying it. '...once handset manufacturers (and carriers, through handset manufacturers) have built their own version of Android, they've effectively taken it out of the development stream. Updating it is their responsibility, which they have to choose to uphold. Or not! Who cares? The phones are already sold."

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  1. What a nightmare. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to hand it to Apple, at least they handle updates pretty well.

    1. Re:What a nightmare. by kdart · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Google does get it. But Google does not want to play by the existing rules. They want to change the rules.

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  2. Re:Doesn't matter if users ca upgrade. by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look at all the people will ing to jailbreak iPhones

    The main reason why people jailbreak is to get decent apps that will never be approved (such as emulators) on their phone. With a lack of a central authority forbidding such things, most people are less likely to root their Android device unless they are geeks.

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