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By Aloonatic on 6/12/2012 7:21:01 AM , Rating: 2
That's the point. The OP is taking control, and wont be buying a Motorola again, and if that's his reason, then he'll not be buying an Android phone again as most manufacturers are as bad as each other in that respect. However, Android users who say just use an ROM from wherever need to realise that the vast majority of people don;t want to do this, even technical people, and it's a big advantage for Apple in the market.

I do agree tho, buy a phone now for what it can do now. In the early days of android I might have had some sympathy with people who expected updates, but I think that people should have realised by now that that's not how the android handset business model works.

I have an Xperia S, and it's OK. It is supposed to get a v4 update at some stage, but I'll be more pleasantly surprised if it does, rather than expecting it to happen. It does what I need it too, but to be honest, so would most handsets with most OSs on.

At any rate, IMHO, getting all upset about Android updates is a bit odd too. There's usually little reason to get excited about them in reality. Even the great 2.1 to 2.2 (I think it was) update that was supposed to make apps run much faster didn't really do that much in reality. Android updates rarely bring anything that actually is useful/great anyway. I think that the wi-fi hotspot thing has been the most useful update that I've found, but other than that I can't really think of anything that's made me think wow, that was worth it.

To be honest, I'm just waiting for my next contract renewal to coincide with a decent WP7 handest to be come available on my network, as I never seem to have any luck there, with the Lumia 900 being something that I might have gone for coming to the UK just a little too late :(

By retrospooty on 6/12/2012 10:27:55 AM , Rating: 1

I dunno about that. I agree that the vast majority of users don't want to deal with a custom/hacked ROM to get an update, but the reason is that the vast majority of users don't care about updates at all. The average non-technical user out there doesn't even bother, and will only get an updatae if it happens automatically. For those that do want it, there is a choice. Android gives you options of all kinds of different types of phones with different assets, but has a limited upgrade path, and iPhone gives you a very good future OS upgrade path, with very limited options of different types of phones.

That is just the way it is. To buy an Android and be angry that an 18 month old phone doesn't get an upgrade is just as useless as buying and iPhone and then being angry that the screen is too small.

