Topic: Android OS updates compared to iOS and Windows Phone

[tendoboy1984]

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Am I the only one tired of answering the same questions over and over?

Google doesn't sent out updates to Android, they release the updates and let let carriers and manufacturers make tweaks and choose when to provide it. Most companies modify Android to their taste, so they wouldn't want to have an update screw it up (and Google doesn't want to). If Google started forcing updates, it would go against what they pushed as a feature of it to companies and potentially scare them off.

Ok ok I get it. Does the same situation apply to Microsoft and their Windows PC / Windows Phone platforms?


I've played with a few Android devices, and the OS looked exactly the same. Asus tablets ran the same "Ice Cream Sandwich" Android that Samsung tablets had. What "tweaks" are you talking about?

[UncleBob]

But Android is still Google's OS, so they have the right to put it on whatever device they want, and they can update it whenever they want.

You don't understand the concept of "open source" at ALL, do you?

Yes, they can put it on whatever device they want.  Yes, they can update it whenever they want.  Neither of those two conditions have a single thing to do with anything regarding when manufacturers or carriers push out updated versions of the OS to devices.

Nothing.