| disolitude said: 2. carriers are able to brand android devices as they like, pack them with apps, themes and branding that they want and market them as they want. Storage room, number of apps and microsoft charging carriers has nothing to do with this. OEMs selling android phones to carriers have to bend to their wishes where microsoft stands behind windows phones with standardized set of rules which applies to carriers and OEMs. |
I can see why carriers don't like the idea but for consumers, it's a big win and it's Android's biggest flaw. Too much power is put into the hands of the manufacturer. Could you imagine what the PC world would be like if Dell started skinning Windows 7 and dictating which models could upgrade to Windows 8? That's basically the Android ecosystem and Google needs to fix it if they plan to continue selling $100+ phones. They've already lost my business over it and it won't take long for the general public to start following suit after they get burned when their $200 six month old phone doesn't get an OS upgrade. That shit may fly for the mouth-breathers who pay $12 for some shitty Android 2.2 phone but customers who spend money expect better service than that.
Or check out my new webcomic: http://selfcentent.com/
