Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document

On 5/17/24 9:00 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-05-17 17:26, Andrew wrote:

Hank Rogers wrote on Fri, 17 May 2024 17:04:49 -0500 :
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Even if nobody is using them...

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Both phones suffer from the shitty and non-user replaceable batteries.
Glued together.

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This is true but at least 5% of Android models still have them.
While 0% of Apple models ever had user-replaceable batteries.

 Which is irrelevant.

Indeed.  All that saying that ~95% of Android products have moved along to current design philosophies, while the last 5% haven't. It would take some more research to determine if these holdouts are actually still in production (and for what market segment) or if they're now down to "New Old Stock" that's still available for sale.

And the software that drops support after a few years.

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The full software support for Android is far better than iOS for a variety
of reasons which the Apple zealots would never be able to comprehend.

 No... ...it's really not.

This doesn't actually matter, because fundamentally, its not a profound statement:  by literal definition as per set theory, no subset of a whole can ever be greater than the whole from which it was a subset.
As such, just what does 'full software support' really mean?  Its only of value if every Android smartphone sold is capable of using the 'full' breadth of this software set (which is dang near impossible) and then also only if this 'full' set is materially different (better) than software sets from other providers (eg, Apple iOS). Plus the Law of Diminishing Returns applies too: just because something is "N+1" larger doesn't mean that the "+1" increment is also significant.  To use a analogy, $10,000,001 is pedantically "more money" than $10,000,000, but that extra dollar doesn't make this difference be significant.

For example, apple zealots are completely ignorant that all Android phones
(4.4 & above) are updated monthly completely seamlessly over the Internet.
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<https://www.androidheadlines.com/2022/01/google-monthly-changelog-play-system-updates.html>
   "Google System updates, meanwhile, are fully automated. Originally
    referred to as Project Mainline, these updates fix bugs discovered
    in various OS components like device connectivity, location services,
    media services, Emergency alerts, and others."

 Is that every single update?
 Don't you tout the wonder of being able to load software from anywhere?
 

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Google & Samsung phones have 7 years of multi-update full support.
  *Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years*
  <https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-extends-android-and-security-updates-to-7-years/>
  "Samsung phones now come backed with seven years' worth of
   security updates and seven generations of OS upgrades."

 That's only for their latest phones.
 Apple has mostly supported it's phones for longer than Samsung OR Google.

Yes, that's been their track record history.  Plus:

  *Google just put Apple and Samsung on notice - 7 years of software updates*

These "7 years" announcements were clearly made to try to have their products be better able to compete against Apple.
Plus they're merely promises of future performance which remains yet to be seen as achievable in real world practice. Let's wait to see what their respective SEC filings say about these initiatives.
-hh