Who says it is bug riddled?
Anyone whom thinks an update will not have bugs is nieve. I spend 60 hours a week dissecting bug riddled updates.
Wow I still cant believe there are so many VZW apologists on here. There are Developers, who have day jobs, who are pushing out ROMs that have GB working perfectly for the Thunderbolt.
Yeah MR1 was buggy but keep in mind, these people are running a business which advertised a product that had certain capabilities.
You guys can say all you want but at the end of the day Verizon cant keep up with a bunch of hobby developers, and that my friends is pathetic
There will never be a time when OEM developers can keep up with community developers.
And it is not just Verizon's testing, its also a supreme lack of fresh eyes on the project and a need for a more polished product. Why do you think Samsung wanted the creator of CyanogenMod? Copy+Paste porting does not sell phones, which is why the comment made in another topic on this forum of selling all Android phones vanilla would be rather poor choice business-wise. Each software update, big or small, carries the expectation of added features. Added features run the high potential of bugs, which then have to be worked out... if the OEM devs can find them.
You are comparing a free-lance pirate versus a country's navy ship: A pirate can fire on whatever ship he wants, regardless of affiliation, although such freedom comes with little financial backing. A country's navy ship is required to walk on egg-shells and honour treaties/cease-fires in return for having the nation's coffers fund their voyages. Pirates tend to be the bigger innovator based on necessity, but they require other ships to plunder in order to remain afloat.
Translation: OEM devs often times are bound by constraints community devs are not. While community devs often require their base for development leaked from OEM devs, they tend to be more innovative based on the necessity of creativity and speed (what fun is a custom ROM that has absolutely nothing "custom" about it? What good is a Eclair ROM for the Thunderbolt?). OEM devs in most cases can produce a more polished product due to more vast resources, but it comes at the cost of the speed and innovation under which community devs thrive.
Sorry Frank, but every example you used is invalid. I don't get VM notifications pushed from VZW, but you didn't state that one, (and there's apps for that). Nice try on calling out rom dev's. The only reason they don't have the speed the dev community has is because they have way more OS systems to work on at one time, per employment. You don't need to apologize for them OVER AND OVER, they got their own back man, it just makes them look worse that randoms are trying to do it for them.
In my opinion, HTC's numbers as a company speak for themselves. They push out more updates and faster than other OEMs. They really need to apologize for nothing. HTC has been working tirelessly to get Gingerbread pushed to all of their currently supported line up while trying not to get sued for some asinine infringement claim from some half eaten piece of fruit.
We at Verizon have been working tirelessly to get updates approved for two-thirds of the Droid franchise while trying not to screw up phones (lot of good that did lol). I personally would rather a working phone on *slightly* outdated software, than bleeding-edge software that never bloody works.
(Me and my mass quoting lol)
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