I really think manufacturers should change their updating methods anyway. Let's get real, being on the latest and greatest version of android doesn't matter, because touchwiz and sense aren't skins, they are android based oses. Updates take forever because they basically have to rebase their whole os on the newest version of android.
Then things get messey. You end up with the one x+ launching running a newer version of the software than the original, and people get cranky. And in my case, I've found updates to be half assed every time, they always break more things than they fix. Take my vivid, it was an incredible phone on gingerbread 2.3.4,then came ics 4.03 and it went from being great to terrible. And it never saw a single update after that.
So this is how it should be. Manufacturers should launch all their phones on the same version the year they release them and just keep them on that os, providing stability and performance updates in the meantime. Once the new flagship arrives, that's when they update the previous years phones, and if they limit features so be it. After 2 years, then they stop supporting them, because by then most people won't own the device anymore anyway. Sound familiar? It's the ios way, and its the perfect way.
This method would provide better updates and keep their phones enjoyable and usable. I know with my vivid I didn't even care if I got jellybean, I just wanted an update to 4.04, and bug fixes and patches to sense yet that never came.
I think my idea would work better. Because truth be told, too much is made out of said version of android. Again they aren't android devices, they are android based os devices, and no Kindle owner is demanding an update to jelly bean because amazon is smart enough to not fall into that trap.
But in the meantime, yeah gotta get over it, no manufacturer does updates right.
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