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Originally Posted by boswd
Oh i'm just messing around. besides I'm sure iOS fanboy's have their squabbles too. The internet is tough place in these types of debates.
But you can't blame Android for Samsung's lack of update's HTC is well known to update their high end phones pretty timely. And Moto isn't too shabby themselves I have the Droid X and I bought it at the end of July 2010 with 2.1 (Eclair) in september I had 2.2 (Froyo) and about 3 months ago 2.3 (Gingerbread) . That's 2 major updates in a year.
iOS only does one major update per year, they may do small ones for bug fixes or small features but they don't roll out a ton a major updates throughout the year.
I like Amazon's ecosytem, i do like it better than iTunes, and it's more vesatile, the only app it's lacking as of right now is Amazon Video on Demand, I have it on my Roku box so I hope they don't close it off to the rest of the android world and keep it only on their tablets. I mean we already have Amazon mp3, Amazon cloud, Kindle, and it's App store.
We'll see. I for one won't be too excited for their first one. That one will most likely be just an answer to the nook color, The larger 10 inch tablet is the one I'm keeping an eye on.
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My husband says his Evo is still 2.2 he got it in June or July of last year, got 2.2 in September and hasn't seen an update since.
Yes it is the manufacturers who are screwing up Android and Google has been letting them, all in the name of openness. If Telco isn't screwing people, over with endless bloatware, then the manufacturer is with lack of support and half assed products. True that Apple releases one update a year, but they aren't releasing 20 different phones a month and giving one an update and not the other. 2 to 3 years is more then fair as most upgrade every two to three years. I have never felt obsolete with my apple devices until they were actually obsolete. I can't say that for my Android phone when a new one is released a month later with an updated OS and features I won't get without some hackery.
While in my case, it may be Samsung's fault they haven't bothered to fix my GPS in all this time, a lot of consumers will think its a Samsung/Android problem. If google stopped allowing them to throw android on products that aren't fully ready, and at the very least, fix the problems they half assed on, then I wouldn't see a problem.
But like I said, I like Android, I like IOS, hell I'd buy WebOS if I liked it, but I do like a consistent experience across devices. That is why I like Amazon and kindle. I get a pretty consistent experience no matter which of my devices I pick up and start reading on.