Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by rsheridan6 » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 12:58 PM UTC

chugger wrote: post #121

rsheridan6 wrote: post #115

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I bought an Apple 3G new in August 2009, after the 3GS came out and it felt like obsolete junk with the next major iOS upgrade, long before the contract expired. I certainly did not feel like I was treated like a king. I was certainly not the only one: http://appletoolbox.com/2010/06/iphone-3g-slow-after-ios-4-0... None of the suggestions worked. I have a Motorola Atrix now.

This story Sounds like total BS to me coming from a Google employee.

That's right, only Google shills are anything other than 100% satisfied with the iPhone. That's why Android is selling more than the iPhone now.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by hnalien » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #85

hnalien wrote: post #80

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You should give Dolphin Browser a try. The best mobile browser. Period.

I did. It's great. I still think the stock browser should 'just work,' considering that Google also makes Chrome. I want to evaluate competitors' offerings in terms of added functionality, not basic stability. It's a bad advert for Android, just like inferior wheels on a car would be a bad advert for the car manufacturer.

Very true. Since Google makes Chrome, which is excellent on the desktop, there's no excuse to let us deal with the 'Browser'. Android has always been a 'work in progress' and it's been too long now.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by dextorious » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 2:58 AM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #99

dextorious wrote: post #97

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> Well Apple, who as we know do everything right Really? Says who? The imaginary Apple-fanboy strawman? > also made several hardware updates that left older Macs behind. So who is right? What's "right" in this context? It's an engineering tradeoff. Considerations: 1) the cost of adding support for newer features for soon to be obsolete hardware 2) the benefits of using the added capabilities of newer hardware with no…

I don't think Google has any incentive to obsolete older devices.

Did I say anything about Google in my comment?

Most of abandoned devices out there are by third party Android cellphone makers, who have a lot of incentive of making users just buy the new version. After all, it's their only revenue stream.

Apple, on the other hand, besides being traditionally nicer to its customers (as shown by them toping the user and support satisfaction surveys every damn year), also have the iTunes and iPhone App Store to get money off of customers with older iPhones, so they can afford to give them a new iOS version. And they also use the iPhone as a lure to their other device offerings (iPad, Macs, etc), so the benefit from users of an older iPhone not feeling left behind iOS-wise.

Perhaps the biggest reason is this: Apple still sells older models (such as the 3GS, 4G etc), especially to other parts of the world. So it's an added incentive that those are upgradable to the latest iOS.

Now, since you asked, perhaps Google doesn't want to add to their Android dev expenses the potentially huge expense of supporting older devices.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by Fliko » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:17 PM UTC

ayuvar wrote: post #83

Fliko wrote: post #19

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I'm wishing I bought an iPhone instead of my Nexus One now

I still like my Nexus One, but between the sagging power button and the lack of "real" multitouch, I'm not inclined to buy another HTC product next time.

The buggy multi-touch was the worse thing on the Nexus One, and was very falsely advertised on some sites. I really thought that it had a working multi-touch solution before I paid the mountain of importing fees to get it into Canada.

I do still like it too, it just could've been that much better without much more effort put into it.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by mez77 » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 1:52 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #101

lurker17 wrote: post #98

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A 2-year contract costs $20/month more than a comparable month-to-month plan. (T-mobile's Even More /Plus plans make this explicit.) That's where the phone subsidy comes from.

That may be the case for T-Mobile but it certainly is not universal. AT&T offers nothing like that, AFAIK.

That would explain why the US version of the Nexus One has T-mobiles 3G band and not AT&Ts.