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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:09:10 -0700
JR Raphael, Computerworld. 12 Apr 2018
How many times can a company cry wolf before we all stop listening?
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3268610/android/lg-software-upgrade-center-android.html
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By my calculations, seeing this morning's news that LG is opening up a
"Software Upgrade Center" -- the industry's "first such facility aimed at
providing customers worldwide with faster, timelier smartphone operating
system and software updates" (!) -- could result in three distinct
reactions.
First is the woefully uninformed, overly positive reception -- the one LG
clearly hopes to elicit with its over-the-top press release: "Whoa! Look at
LG! It's breaking new ground and showing just how committed to customers it
really is."
Second is the guardedly optimistic view: "Look, I know LG has never been the best with Android upgrades, but it always tries. Maybe this will be a new beginning. Maybe things are about to get great!"
And third is the seriously skeptical view: "Riiiiight. LG always talks a good game with Android upgrades, but it never actually delivers. Looks like more of the same ol' silliness we see every year."
Me? As someone who's tracked and analyzed Android upgrades closely since the start, I tend to veer more toward that final view of skepticism.
As a certain smart-alecky writer once put it, the company truly does excel at one thing in this domain: being the first to announce a new OS rollout. ["announce" was in italics.]