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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 861334">Not to mention every phone maker does their own thing when it comes to&nbsp; UI, preloaded crap apps and stuff. While I like Android phones over iPhones for other reasons, I do agree that the Android market place is overly fragmented. Personally I think this is where Google dropped the ball big time. They gave way too much control over to the handset makers, hence why there is this mess. At least with Windows MS controls the updates and so doesn&#039;t matter if you got your computer from Dell, Asus, HP, etc... you get the updates for as long as MS will support that version of Windows. The PC makers have no control over Windows updates, UI, etc...Personally this is how Android should have worked. Phone makers get the OS from Google, but they cannot change the UI, they have to allow updates from Google no matter how long Google decides it wants to update certain phones. At least this way there would be more control over the whole Android ecosystem. It&#039;s no coincidence that most phone makers don&#039;t offer updates past 2 years, which is when most people&#039;s contracts with their respective cell network providers ends.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite132" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure&nbsp; &nbsp; :unsure:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":unsure:" />It&#039;s the sad reality we live in.Anything negative that happens, whether it&#039;s computers, or other things in life, it&#039;s never the person themselves that gets the blame, it always the product, company, etc... I know in this day in age it&#039;s all about go, go, go, so I can appreciate just wanting to sit down and chill, but at the same time I feel like a lot of people use the &quot;I don&#039;t have enough time&quot; excuse way too much. It is what it is, but it will be interesting to see if it gets better over time, with newer generations being brought up with technology in their lives. Hopefully at some point they will learn the basics of security along the way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 861334"] Not to mention every phone maker does their own thing when it comes to UI, preloaded crap apps and stuff. While I like Android phones over iPhones for other reasons, I do agree that the Android market place is overly fragmented. Personally I think this is where Google dropped the ball big time. They gave way too much control over to the handset makers, hence why there is this mess. At least with Windows MS controls the updates and so doesn't matter if you got your computer from Dell, Asus, HP, etc... you get the updates for as long as MS will support that version of Windows. The PC makers have no control over Windows updates, UI, etc... Personally this is how Android should have worked. Phone makers get the OS from Google, but they cannot change the UI, they have to allow updates from Google no matter how long Google decides it wants to update certain phones. At least this way there would be more control over the whole Android ecosystem. It's no coincidence that most phone makers don't offer updates past 2 years, which is when most people's contracts with their respective cell network providers ends.:unsure: It's the sad reality we live in. Anything negative that happens, whether it's computers, or other things in life, it's never the person themselves that gets the blame, it always the product, company, etc... I know in this day in age it's all about go, go, go, so I can appreciate just wanting to sit down and chill, but at the same time I feel like a lot of people use the "I don't have enough time" excuse way too much. It is what it is, but it will be interesting to see if it gets better over time, with newer generations being brought up with technology in their lives. Hopefully at some point they will learn the basics of security along the way. [/QUOTE]

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