Originally Posted by IvanIV:
“An honest question. Do you know how software development works? It's a different kind of effort and resources to prepare an upgrade for a device than just fix a bug. For older devices it may not be financially acceptable for a manufacturer to do. You have to check everything even if just to find out everything is okay. If you fix a bug, you have to fix it in all (supported) versions. It can be very different in each version as it is now for 4.3. They clearly do not have a mechanism to deliver it as easily as they have in 4.4. Saying get a new version does not work for all. Google as a software provider has a certain responsibility. If there is more than half of users hit by a certain problem, any reasonable software house will bring out a fix. Google does not have an easy way to deliver the fix, which is their fault, too, by the way, but they should not abandon their users.”
“An honest question. Do you know how software development works? It's a different kind of effort and resources to prepare an upgrade for a device than just fix a bug. For older devices it may not be financially acceptable for a manufacturer to do. You have to check everything even if just to find out everything is okay. If you fix a bug, you have to fix it in all (supported) versions. It can be very different in each version as it is now for 4.3. They clearly do not have a mechanism to deliver it as easily as they have in 4.4. Saying get a new version does not work for all. Google as a software provider has a certain responsibility. If there is more than half of users hit by a certain problem, any reasonable software house will bring out a fix. Google does not have an easy way to deliver the fix, which is their fault, too, by the way, but they should not abandon their users.”
Comedy after explaining in detail why you are incorrect, your comeback is do you know how software development works? Yes I do, and happy to discuss the relative merits of the promotion mechanism used to distribute code or the effort needed to backport code which cannot be distributed?
On a separate note - for the love of mike, please use paragraphs.
