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Motorola blaming Google's Nexus hardware choice for slow Android upgrades

AntimonyER

AntimonyER

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Wow, this is rich, from Droid-Life:

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/09/motorola-googles-nexus-hardware-choice-to-blame-for-slow-android-upgrades/

Seriously? Blur has nothing to do with it Moto? Its the chipset that Google chose that is causing the delays? Well alright, I guess.... wait, which one did they choose? TI OMAP? Which one do you use? TI OMAP. Yeah way to go Moto. :rolleyes: Fail.


update: Ok, it looks like DL reeled me in with a traffic driver story. The original story, here:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400023,00.asp

Sounds much more reasonable, more an explanation of the process, than putting blame on Google's Nexus hardware choice.
 
Yeah, this doesn't make sense at all. It's actually Samsung who was forced by Google to use OMAP4 platform for Nexus, not Exynos or Snapdragon. Now they complain on hardware difference from Nexus when all their line up is on OMAP4?
 
yeah i read the article and the whole time i was like ...ok Moto then just use stock Android and you'll cut your update time in half at least.
 
its a lie.. cuz GSM version of GNex has exynos in it not TI OMAP. and its running same Icecreamsandwich like verizon version with TI OMAP.
 
After reading the article, although i find it weird that this exec is blaming her future boss, it does make me wonder if she knows something that we don't. Lets face it, she is not just another tech blogger or a low end employee...she is a top end exec who knows the business more than you or me. For her to go public, there is at least an ounce of truth to all this...and for her to blame her future boss, i would bet that what she says is quite accurate!!
 
Thai said:
After reading the article, although i find it weird that this exec is blaming her future boss, it does make me wonder if she knows something that we don't. Lets face it, she is not just another tech blogger or a low end employee...she is a top end exec who knows the business more than you or me. For her to go public, there is at least an ounce of truth to all this...and for her to blame her future boss, i would bet that what she says is quite accurate!!
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By that same logic, as an insider at a particular company that produces a custom Android skin, she also has an interest to try to deflect criticism away from her product and pin it to something else. There is truth in all of it, but this is mostly spin geared towards making "techie" people stop and say "yeah, that sounds plausible" (no matter how construed) and not pay attention to Blur for a while.

I say "construed" because moto chose the hardware for their devices that is apparently making it hard to keep up. That is not Google's fault, it is the fault of their own design and engineering teams, and the engineering teams at the hardware's source that should test compatibility with the major (and likely) end-use OS', and write their firmware appropriately.
 
Thai said:
After reading the article, although i find it weird that this exec is blaming her future boss, it does make me wonder if she knows something that we don't. Lets face it, she is not just another tech blogger or a low end employee...she is a top end exec who knows the business more than you or me. For her to go public, there is at least an ounce of truth to all this...and for her to blame her future boss, i would bet that what she says is quite accurate!!
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It's impossible to know how much inside info she has or doesnt have. But I got the sense that she was making some of it up. They obviously have access to pre-release code /spec docs.

The thing you need to remember with a merger of large corporations like this though, is that about 20-50% of the executives will be "reorganized"

Attacking the messenger isn't usually sound logic, but at that level ulterior motives run rampant.

It could be something as simple as stirring the pot to get her name in the press.

Anyways, no way to know for sure on her motives, but the "we dont have early access" statement is not true AFAIK.
 
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