{"id":12418,"date":"2016-07-01T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/why_android_sucks.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:18","slug":"why-android-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/why-android-sucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Android Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/bigstock-Tired-business-woman-resting-h-113489021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2016\/07\/bigstock-Tired-business-woman-resting-h-113489021-thumb-500x333-15241.jpg\" alt=\"bigstock-Tired-business-woman-resting-h-113489021.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&rsquo;m sure I won&rsquo;t have many fans because of the title of this entry alone but Android has a serious problem and there may be no immediate solution. Someone has to point this out. You see, Android has become so popular because it is free and available on a range of devices. This drove much if not all of the profit from the market as the competition is fierce.<\/p>\n<p>However, Android often depends on the equipment company to push software updates. And the way the updates work sometimes defies logic. A Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for example needs to be plugged into a PC in order to upgrade it.<\/p>\n<p>Customers in other words are at the mercy of the supplying company.<\/p>\n<p>And even if the company supplying the device is huge like Dell, they can elect to stop upgrading the OS any time they want. Just like what the company&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3090544\/android\/dell-stops-selling-android-devices.html?token=%23tk.IFWNLE_nlt_infoworld_daily_2016-07-01&#038;idg_eid=a09206b1e8a9127507f16409add1b024&#038;utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=InfoWorld%20Daily:%20Morning%20Edition%202016-07-01&#038;utm_term=infoworld_daily#tk.IFW_nlt_infoworld_daily_2016-07-01\">did<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Can we blame them? Maybe, maybe not. I don&rsquo;t think we have a right to force the company to support something which loses money. Then again, they probably do have a commitment to customers since they purchased these devices in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>How long should the commitment last is unknown. What is fair? Five years from time of purchase? Three?<\/p>\n<p>The fragmentation in the Android space makes it difficult to seamlessly use various devices from different companies without a learning curve of some kind. In addition, the OS can be orphaned at any time apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Does this justify spending perhaps four or five times more on similar hardware from Apple? Maybe, maybe not but there is a hassle and annoyance factor here worth pointing out.<\/p>\n<p>These are the reasons Google will be rolling out its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/four-things-a-google-phone-could-mean\/\">own phone<\/a> and likely focusing more on its own hardware lines in the future.<\/p>\n<p>A negative Android experience can hurt a brand and reputation and right now they aren&rsquo;t in full control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m sure I won&rsquo;t have many fans because of the title of this entry alone but Android has a serious problem and there may be no immediate solution. Someone has to point this out. You see, Android has become so popular because it is free and available on a range of devices. This drove much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,158,163,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18493,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/18493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}