Android's Terrible Support History
Michael Degusta:
In other words, Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one. Then again, all of this may be ascribing motives and intent where none exist - it’s entirely possible that the root cause of the problem is just flat-out bad management (and/or the aforementioned spectacular dumbness).
Most of the time, these phones are going to be held onto for over two years, and for such a high percentage to stop receiving support updates after one year tells me that this is nothing but a misguided strategy for increasing profit.
And don’t get me started on how pretty much no Android phone runs the latest version of the OS.
Steve Jobs on Android
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40bn in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs told Isaacson. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”Probably not the last thing I’m going to quote from Steve Jobs’ biography.
