Thursday, October 27, 2011

Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

the understatement has a really good article about an issue I didn't know about, Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support "I went back and found every Android phone shipped in the United States1 up through the middle of last year. I then tracked down every update that was released for each device - be it a major OS upgrade or a minor support patch - as well as prices and release & discontinuation dates. I compared these dates & versions to the currently shipping version of Android at the time. The resulting picture isn’t pretty - well, not for Android users:"

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