This is not an update issue. This is a fragmenation issue. Application developers decide, depending on their resources (money and time), to support only particular or all versions of the Android OS for their apps.
Fragmentation is the problem here, since handset/phone makers still bring out phones with old OS versions and are hesitant to update existing ones. Some fragmentation will be inevitable. Some phones just don't have the hardware to deal with certain applications. They're too slow, screen is too small, no GPU, etc. Phones, like many other gadgets, get old very quickly. On Feb 23, 6:05 pm, s3ction8 <kennethjohns...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just posted this in the regular android discuss group but I do > believe that developers should read this as well. This directly > affects you as well. > > This first began with my personal experience, I have an HTC Magic and > I'm at version 1.5 a friend of mine has a g1 while another just got a > Milestone. The issue is one friend can't understand why one phone can > see this app and another can't or why one phone can do one thing that > another can't, Their both running android whats the problem (ex. The > Milestone has maps 3.3.1 the G1 has old Maps 3.1). I'm getting tired > of explaining that even though they are both androids one is more up > to date then the other and there really is no way to update. Even "IF" > you rooted the phone you have to deal with bugs and ports its > ridiculous. Now I love Android and I want to see Android KILL iPhone > and eventually Symbian and I DO know that this is not necessarily > Google's problem but it is indeed a problem that affects Google and > it's users wanting to get the full Google Experience. I recently read > a PC World article stupidly titled Android doomed to self destruct > which I do not believe and its at this > link:http://www.pcworld.com/article/189969/google_android_is_doomed_to_sel... > but I realized that I am not the only person that sees this. Today > there is an article on Slashdot as well as 2 on infoworld. We need to > fix this at least some kind of update system that does not rely on > manufacturers or at least forces them to act. Devices are releasing > today with android 1.6 and if I research I'll probably find a few > releasing 1.5. HTC is still pumping out Magic's with this old > firmware, it's just getting very messy all across the board. Is there > any suggestion as to what can be done at least on paper, any ideas? > Thank you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
