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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I have no clue what you mean by this... I've had a HTC Flyer for 3 years and only ever saw one update (which I didn't install as I went for the custom rom instead). And I had to manually start searching for it...
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I mean updates of the apps, not the OS.
iOS, for example, doesn't update the stock apps, but puts them all in an update of the OS.
Android not only is updating the 3rd party apps, but the stock apps (Google Maps, Google Mail, ...) as well.
For those stock apps, the original remains in ROM, but gets de-activated. You sees this in settings (all apps, not just under the downloaded ones) as well: You can't uninstall those apps, only disable them.
If you root your tablet, this becomes perfectly transparent. You can move the update to ROM then, thus overwriting the original. If then you reset your unit, the updated app is present already.
Most won't bother, but personally I find those double apps annoying.
There are frequent updates to the stock apps, almost daily. After less than a week you've got dozens such double apps...
That's one of the main reasons, why I root my Androids...