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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
If you say so. Most Android tablets (and phones) receive an update or two, maybe. And that's it. B&N doesn't seem any different in this than any other vendor.
My Lenovo Tab2 received one update. Yet I still prefer it to a Fire tablet. If you were to take a poll of Fire tablet owners, I doubt regular O/S updates would be one of their primary reasons for purchase.
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You might be right but it *is* a consideration for many just as is the embedded user support. Amazon uses the Microsoft support model rather than the phone company model.
Phone companies would rather have users upgrade the phone so they don't typically support OS upgrades. Other Android devices are different: NVidia, for one, has supported their SHIELD streamer for three years and three OS versions with no end in sight.
Amazon made it clear years ago that, because they make most of their money when people use their hardware, they don't have a need to force hardware churn. It's like with the ereaders where they still support the very first kindles in one form or another. That is typical behavior of content-focused players vs the hardware focused players. In that Amazon is more like the console vendors than Apple or the phone vendors. They make more money off the content so they prefer you use older hardware and spend your money on content. There is more profit in selling $100 of ebooks than in a $100 tablet. So upgrades make sense for them.
And I'm not the one saying that android updating is a problem: it is the tech industry, from Google on down, saying it.
Here:
https://searchmobilecomputing.techta...-more-problems