Jan 16. 2014
Jan 16. 2014
Analysis – Androids drawbacks is fragmentation: different versions in circulation. Google denies that this is a major problem and Apple recalls only too happy to. HTC is now in the spotlight by not updating relatively recent high-end devices. What then is the problem? The are several.
in difficulties smartphone maker HTC thrust customers for the head with the truncation of Android updates for HTC One X and One X +. These two recent high-end devices are 20 and 14 months old respectively, and are not allowed to the latest Android version (4.4, better known as KitKat). In fact, they also get the previous version (4.3, Jelly Bean) not
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The two end devices of the previous generation continue stabbing the eervorige version (4.2, even Jellybean called) of Android. After two One X models (with their lighter versions One S and One V) HTC has early last year, attractive, high One. Running by now, the previous version of Android (4.3, 4.1 and 4.2 which, like the name Jelly Bean bears). Early this year a gold version appeared.
Is HTC now in trouble so that no (software) development work more attention to older, already sold devices? Or would the company simply can not take that trouble? Well, it is certainly no small difficulty. An Android update release is not as simple as taking the code from Google receive and then publish. There are still a few hurdles between and who have already been taken in the past and already missed.
addition to the modest player HTC nowadays, there are also major parties struggling with Android updates. Suppliers such as Sony and Motorola who have not been carried out. Earlier promise to update the Android Alliance Google has been trying to fight through to commit to 18-month period in which a device still receives updates to the then-latest version.
itself and its partners, the device version multiplicity of its mobile OS Android fragmentation has been suffering for some time, the use of multiple versions, partly aggravated by lack of updates. Here, the state of affairs in June 2012 (the current fragmentation is less – see page 3):
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called Android Update Alliance that mid-2011 has been set, the end of the year if not removed properly. A survey among handset makers have yielded disappointing responses. PC Magazine end of 2011 In the following year there appeared to be real violators of the update-promise, which already had a logical (technical) except itself:. Updates provided the hardware pulls
On the next page, the manufacturer itself by slowing additions, as well as providers and bureaucratic processes are a millstone around the neck of timely updates
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