Reverse side of android
Buying a smartphone on the Android OS, we want to get a device that will be on top of technological progress, which will be the most modern OS, the most advanced software, and we will get all this when we buy, but there is one thing ...
Take for example the Samsung I5700 Spica, the smartphone is very decent and, moreover, very inexpensive, now you can buy it for 10,000 rubles and by and large it is no worse than the more popular HTC Hero or HTC Wildfire. And it would seem that the I5700 is a great purchase, but if you dig deeper ... Samsung officially announced that new firmware for the I5700 will no longer be released. To this we need to nail down the fact that Google is not going to slow down the pace of development of Android and Android 3, 4 is not far off. What is the result?
Already today we cannot install the latest version of Android 2.2 on the I5700, and after another half a year, software developers will stop making software with the support of the old version of the operating system.
What do we have in the end? Telephone sales in Europe began in November last year, a year from the beginning of sales will become outdated device with the old operating system and the old software. That's it, you want to be on top of technological progress? Go to the store for a new one.
But I5700 is still on sale, that is, buying it now, you buy a pre-outdated device. All of the above is true for HTC Hero and all other Android smartphones that came out more than a few months ago.
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There can be only one way out of this situation, smartphone developers should sell the opportunity to receive updates along with the smartphone for several years. Here you can draw an analogy with Windows, bought Windows, received five years of free updates from Microsoft, and no one forces you to throw out your computer and buy a new version of Windows, since the new versions of programs do not work on Windows.
But here there is one nuance Microsoft is an OS manufacturer, and Samsung is a smartphone maker and by and large Samsung or HTC is not at all so interested in releasing OS updates as the OS manufacturer itself. It would have been much easier if the installation and update scheme of Android were similar to Windows, firstly, to install updates, you would not need to completely reinstall the system, and secondly, you could install “bare” Android on any smartphone, and then install drivers on top and software from the manufacturer of the smartphone. But this is more of a fiction.
The moral of the article is very simple, I’m much more likely to buy an Android smartphone from a manufacturer who will promise me a few years of updates than I’ll buy a smartphone that will become completely outdated in a year. At the moment I see only one smartphone whose support is unlikely to stop in the coming months or a year, this is the Nexus One .
Why did I write this? I know that Samsung, HTC and other manufacturers of high-quality devices listen to the opinion of their customers, and I hope some part of my thoughts will reach them and we will see the manufacturers' statement that updates to new smartphones will not come out for half a year, but for example, three years.
Take for example the Samsung I5700 Spica, the smartphone is very decent and, moreover, very inexpensive, now you can buy it for 10,000 rubles and by and large it is no worse than the more popular HTC Hero or HTC Wildfire. And it would seem that the I5700 is a great purchase, but if you dig deeper ... Samsung officially announced that new firmware for the I5700 will no longer be released. To this we need to nail down the fact that Google is not going to slow down the pace of development of Android and Android 3, 4 is not far off. What is the result?
Already today we cannot install the latest version of Android 2.2 on the I5700, and after another half a year, software developers will stop making software with the support of the old version of the operating system.
What do we have in the end? Telephone sales in Europe began in November last year, a year from the beginning of sales will become outdated device with the old operating system and the old software. That's it, you want to be on top of technological progress? Go to the store for a new one.
But I5700 is still on sale, that is, buying it now, you buy a pre-outdated device. All of the above is true for HTC Hero and all other Android smartphones that came out more than a few months ago.
')
There can be only one way out of this situation, smartphone developers should sell the opportunity to receive updates along with the smartphone for several years. Here you can draw an analogy with Windows, bought Windows, received five years of free updates from Microsoft, and no one forces you to throw out your computer and buy a new version of Windows, since the new versions of programs do not work on Windows.
But here there is one nuance Microsoft is an OS manufacturer, and Samsung is a smartphone maker and by and large Samsung or HTC is not at all so interested in releasing OS updates as the OS manufacturer itself. It would have been much easier if the installation and update scheme of Android were similar to Windows, firstly, to install updates, you would not need to completely reinstall the system, and secondly, you could install “bare” Android on any smartphone, and then install drivers on top and software from the manufacturer of the smartphone. But this is more of a fiction.
The moral of the article is very simple, I’m much more likely to buy an Android smartphone from a manufacturer who will promise me a few years of updates than I’ll buy a smartphone that will become completely outdated in a year. At the moment I see only one smartphone whose support is unlikely to stop in the coming months or a year, this is the Nexus One .
Why did I write this? I know that Samsung, HTC and other manufacturers of high-quality devices listen to the opinion of their customers, and I hope some part of my thoughts will reach them and we will see the manufacturers' statement that updates to new smartphones will not come out for half a year, but for example, three years.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/94893/
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