I've been antagonistic with Apple products ever since I was a teenager, when Apple used to try to shove its apps down my throat (cough iTunes cough) whenever I just wanted to watch a movie trailer on Quicktime. I never liked Apple's walled garden and "we-control-everything" approach, and I particularly disliked Apple fanboys' dumb "oh my god there's a new iThing coming out" reverence and hysteria.
So when the original iPhone came out a few years ago, I swore in multiple heated discussions with friends and strangers that I'd never buy an iPhone. Since then, I've only owned Android phones. First a few HTC ones, now a Sony phone.Well, I'm sick of it. And I'm ready to go to the dark side.
Google still has very little control over software updates, and Android users are basically at the mercy of their carriers and phone manufacturers when it comes to getting updates or new operating system versions. For example, it took Sony more than six months to push Android 5.0 Lollipop to its new line of Xperia Z phones, despite the fact that it had promised for a much shorter turnaround after Lollipop was released by Google. Just for comparisons sake, when Apple released iOS 8 in September of last year, it immediately became available for all iPhone users, even those with an 2011 iPhone 4S.As security expert Cem Paya 626060385901113344[/tweet]]put it[/url], that was a conscious decision Google made when it created Android. Paya called it a Faustian deal: "cede control over Android, get market-share against iPhone." Basically, Google was happy to let carriers put their bloatware on their Android phones in exchange to having a chance to fight Apple in the mobile market. The tradeoff was giving carriers and manufacturers control over their Android releases, leaving Google unable to centrally push out operating system updates.
GeorgeM om 10:51, 11-08-2015Het lijkt mij ook sterk dat BlackBerry's OS niet te jailbreaken zou zijn, er is simpelweg geen interesse daarin, want inderdaad een véél te kleine markt.