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Originally Posted by emai7s2
Hi mgmueller,
I don't quite follow your comparisons - are you comparing only smartphone OS's, or are you comparing Android to desktop systems?
I've been using Android a few years, and generally speaking, it's worked pretty well. I've never used other smartphones, so I don't know what drawbacks it might have compared to iOS or Windows.
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I'm only comparing tablet OS, I'm not into smartphones.
I'm comparing iOS (iPad mini Retina), Android (Google Nexus 7, Nvidia Shield Tablet, ....) and Windows 8 (Microsoft Surface Pro 3, Dell Venue 8 Pro, ...).
I'm a stickler for details. Once I've found something that bothers me, I can't forget about it.
The update process of stock apps (calendar, mail, ...) is such a thing on Android.
Update process on iOS: You don't get updates for stock apps. From time to time, maybe every 2 months, there's a big update from Apple and the entire OS gets an upgrade. Simple, smooth, intransparent. Nothing to bother.
Update process on Windows 8: You get frequent updates, often a few times per day. You decide what to update, you can delete and reinstall. A bit complicated, not quite so smooth, absolutely transparent.
Update process on Android: You get frequent updates, almost as often as on Windows 8. With root, you see how it works: The stock apps are in ROM. The original in ROM gets deactivated and the update in user memory gets activated instead. I hate such things. With root you can move from user memory to ROM, but you never know what will happen. Relatively complicated, not smooth at all, semi-transparent.
Either hide it all, as on iOS. Or make it all user-manageable. But Android is somewhere in-between and, to me, clearly the worst of the 3.