How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Android Phone Customers

dizum.com wrote: (X-No-Archive)

10 million people who bought the phone
are going to be stuck on the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread
(or 2.2 Froyo in many cases)
until they decide to drop more cash on a new phone.

The FREE remedy to Android problems has been available for ages:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

The Slashdot coverage of this (the comments, actually)
http://google.com/search?q=%22.the.....bar.doesn't.get.stuck.on.top%22
points out that in many cases the hardware vendors' ports
are inferior to what you *can* get running on your device.

As the recent developments with LibreOffice show:
The answer to borking is forking.

The Open Source Software community is SO cool.

Roger Dodger wrote:

Android Linux - obsolete and abandoned the day you open the box!

How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million

Of Its Android Phone Customers

Dec. 23, 2011



Today Samsung announced that its line of Galaxy S phones, one of the most
popular Android phone models of 2010, will not get Google's latest version
of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich.



That means ~10 million people who bought the phone are going to be stuck
on the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread (or 2.2 Froyo in many cases) until
they decide to drop more cash on a new phone.

I reckon OSen should be on SDCard and so become upgradeable.
RAM and processors should also be upgradeable.
So should screens.

Like PCs of old that had to have a fan (despite not needing one)
to make it acceptable for consumer perceptions, I reckon as OSes get
more powerful and smartphones become more ubiquitous, the handsets should be
upgradeable for whatever bits that can be upgraded inside (however
unproductive that may sound), just like PCs.

For Linux, this would be easy as everything is open source,
the software to reconfigure for different attachments is all
readily interchangeable.

For proprietary crap like micoshaft and appil, there won't be enough
engineers to do the upgrade trick because all the software is closed source
and in the hands of a few closed source die hard tards, and this will end up
killing them off sooner!!!!!

The same argument applies to netbooks, laptops, tablets, smartops,
smartbooks, e-readers and ultrabooks.

As Google continues to stick with its kumbaya message that Android should
remain free and open for anyone to use anyway they please, its users are
getting shafted. They have no guarantee that they'll get updates as Google
issues them unless they buy a Google-approved Nexus device.





http://www.businessinsider.com/sams...-sandwich-

update-2011-12

Roger Dodger stated in post on
12/27/11 11:22 AM:

Android Linux - obsolete and abandoned the day you open the box!





How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million

Of Its Android Phone Customers

Dec. 23, 2011



Today Samsung announced that its line of Galaxy S phones, one of the most
popular
Android phone models of 2010, will not get Google's latest version of Android,
Ice Cream Sandwich.



That means ~10 million people who bought the phone are going to be stuck on
the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread (or 2.2 Froyo in many cases) until they
decide to drop more cash on a new phone.



As Google continues to stick with its kumbaya message that Android should
remain
free and open for anyone to use anyway they please, its users are getting
shafted.
They have no guarantee that they'll get updates as Google issues them unless
they buy a Google-approved Nexus device.





http://www.businessinsider.com/sams...dwich-upda
te-2011-12

Must say, that massively sucks. Heck, some in COLA insist on comparing
Linux to XP saying it is too hard to upgrade... well, based on that "logic"
the newest iOS should be compared to Android of a couple versions ago.

Any way you look at it, Android users are getting screwed here.