Michal Ždanský V previous article a colleague outlined how it looks with Android updates compared to iOS. With the relatively recent introduction of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, this difference is likely to deepen. Let's hear the story of Samsung and its Galaxy S.
The Samsung Galaxy S is a phone released in March 2010, that is, a phone about a year and three quarters old. It launched with Android 2.1 and was soon updated to 2.2 Froyo. However, a few days ago, Samsung announced that last year's Samsung flagship and the most successful Android smartphone ever (over 20 million devices sold) will not receive an update to Android 4.0. Ironically, Google's reference phone, the Nexus S, which is identical to the Galaxy S, already has the update.
Samsung reasons that the Galaxy S does not have enough RAM and ROM to handle the new version of the system together with TouchWiz, a software superstructure of Samsung. The main difference between the Galaxy S and the Nexus S is that the Google version runs on a clean version of Android, without any modifications from the manufacturer. Because of the build, which by the way essentially tries to imitate iOS, Galaxy S users will not be able to update to the latest version of the system. In addition to new features, it also brings a number of security fixes, so the phone will potentially be left with many security holes and will be much more susceptible to malware and other malicious code. Not to mention further fragmentation of Android, which will not make life easier for developers either.
Samsung could at least give its customers a choice - either they stay with the old version with TouchWiz or upgrade to the new one without the Samsung overlay. HTC solved with the model Desire the same problem with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update, when finally, under the pressure of dissatisfied customers, several functions in its own interface were turned off Sense. , to make the update possible. In the same way, Apple will not allow some new features of the iOS update for older devices to use the new system (e.g. multitasking on the iPhone 3G). The fact that Apple, by updating the iPhone 3G to iOS 4, turned the phone into an outrageously slow device that could practically be written off is another story.
However, Samsung's relationship with the customer seems to end with the purchase of the phone. Samsung produces several phones a year and tries to get the most out of each one in terms of sales. However, with Android updates, it extends the life of older phones and sells less of the newer ones. In contrast, Apple releases an average of one phone per year. It has all the more reason to keep the value of the phone at the highest possible value with updates. It's no wonder that Apple ranks first among phone manufacturers in terms of customer satisfaction. Of course, I don't mean to say that Apple is the best and others are coughing on customers. However, Apple takes good care of its customers, earning their loyalty (and practically making them willing sheep).
The story of Samsung may finally end well and the company will release the desired update to Android 4.0 ICS under the pressure of dissatisfied customers. Plus, there will always be a community from XDA-Developers porting the latest Android to older devices. but neither will erase the dent in the reputation of Samsung, which refused to release a new update, even at the cost of losing some TouchWiz features. You can lure customers to cheaper phones with a more open system, taunting those queuing for the phone with a smaller screen without 4G network support (which the Czech Banana Republic will only know by hearsay from abroad for a few years), but if you don't take care of them, they won't stand in line for your products.
Update: Samsung will reportedly review the possibility of whether the Galaxy S could run Android 4.0, even without the presence of the TouchWiz superstructure.
I bought it on the first day of sale in CR as an alternative to a private number, and since then it has been lying in the basement like a brick. without ota update kies hell.
Exactly ;-)
I would probably not recommend Samsung even to my enemies... :D It's serious suffering...
…will be much more…Y…more like malware…
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I haven't read such tendentiously written nonsense in a long time. I'm not one to hate Apple, but too much of everything is harmful. I had an iP3G for two years, and if it weren't for JBk, and thanks to it the ability to downgrade from 4.0.x to 3.1.3, my darling would have been thrown away. I'd rather have none than that kind of support. And if a company doesn't want to update because the phone won't download its update with everything, including TW, that's fine. Apple in particular is a shining example of the fact that pointless updates are useless.
HAVE A NICE DAY!
But you forgot to add that the iPhone 3G got one big update. It went on sale in 2008 with iOS 2, then got iOS 2009 in 3, and was killed by the update to iOS 4 in 2010. It worked fine until then, so the transition from iOS 2 to 3 was smooth. Whereas Samsung gave up on its "flagship" already after a year and three quarters (if we're talking about major updates). That's a big difference when it comes to supporting legacy devices.
If it's my honor, you write here that Samsung failed SGS in 1.75 years?.. And Apple KILLED its machine after 2 years?..:-D I really think a functional Samsung is better than a dead iPhone..
Yep, you've already mentioned the 3GS which got the updates to IOS 4 and IOS 5 (including partial updates that everyone can download as soon as they're released). Samsung really can't match this with its updates.
I switched from a 3gs to a samsung galaxy s2. the iphone is lying in the gutter. not that it's bad - it's just that it can't flash, play avi, record calls, because I need work for orders and loads of other things that are important to me. I don't care if there is an update or not. It works great this way and in a year I'll have a different phone anyway. development is moving forward very quickly. No, but with Apple, they got stuck there and it's hard to catch up.
like you didn't manage to download an application for playing AVI or recording a call from the app store, or what do you mean? And can't flash? For what? Which sites are so deadly unusable without flash? I would be really interested :-)
Can you please tell me the name of the call recording application on the App Store? It's something I miss quite a bit on the iP4S.
Recording calls without the other party's consent is illegal. And the App Store is full of applications that play AVI. I recommend Azul for example. And flash? Adobe practically broke the bank on mobile platforms. In addition, there are several alternative browsers in the App Store that can handle Flash
and what is the name of the application that records calls (with consent)?
Such an application can only be found on Cydia (jailbreak required)
Unfortunately, you won't find such an application on Cydia. It doesn't exist. It will probably be because the IPhone does not technically allow it.
..can you please write which browser can handle flash? thanks
Skyfire Web Browser
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on flash games on Facebook, my daughter can't live without them :)..does anyone know something that can do this? diky
So look for these games in the App Store. Zynga has popular games from Facebook, such as Farmville, Mafia Wars or Texas Hold'em Poker. They allow you to connect to existing accounts and continue playing games.
I don't know what you're doing... Skyfire doesn't handle flash... it just converts a couple of popular sites with flash videos into html
FOLLOW.ORG
I guess.. I keep buying a new phone anyway, so I probably won't see the time when the phone isn't supported..:-D
But I evaluate a fairly objectively written article..:-)
Well, surely he is in the mood to buy a flagship every year. I own one GS and after a few months everyone was satisfied that there is no update even though Google released it a long time ago. It took quite a few months before she came and fixed the mistakes and more were created and the wait continued. And I'm not even talking about the new functions, they were enough for me as they were. To this day, my GPS practically does not work, and it was already in the service and it will work again. I don't reject Samsung, but I like Apple's support much more and I wouldn't even say that anyone fell asleep. On iOS, I have far more tools to work with than on Android, and it can have the functions it wants, but of course everyone has different preferences. Apps on Android are, however, mostly compared to iOS for two things, especially for tablets. I don't know who's sleeping here yet. On one side it goes forward and on the other side it collapses. So better with Apple for me…for now. And I would say that it will continue for some time because it is more lucrative for developers. But that belongs more to the previous article.
Just by the way - there was a time not so long ago when Jamtung was (and still is) the same as Daewoo, Kia, etc.
It is a MEGA SHAME to appear in public with Jamtung!
Finally, Apple bought its factory in memory - when iPhones are free of thamtung components, they will be 100%
Unfortunately, I don't agree with that either. I didn't embarrass him anywhere. That is, if I didn't use GPS, which was still working anyway from the beginning.
And a ton to make you believe me :) Screenshot from the homescreen
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I don't know why so much hate. no one doubts that the Galaxy S, SII, etc. are, or were at the time of their release, excellent phones. this article is only about company support for the device. and that's for consideration, with flagships.
in fact, in my opinion, the advantage of Android is mainly that, on the one hand, very cheap smartphones are released, where a person can change the phone practically every year. in that case, an update by the manufacturer is not really necessary. secondly, android is strong in that it is used by several manufacturers, which creates strong competition in the field of "flagships". on paper, the customer can really get a better phone than the iPhone practically at any time. is it really better and at what price is the second thing. but for a phone with such a high price as an iPhone, the customer also wants support from Apple, because practically he will not change the phone every year, but at least once every two (and who is more frequent, sorry, but he is a freak). Adequate phone support for a euro is almost scandalous these days.
I know that Apple is a bit against itself, thanks to iOS5 support for the 3GS, I decided to wait for the iP5, because it is a lot of money. but I think that is one of the comforts that it provides to customers, because on the one hand it is an excellent advertisement and on the other hand, thanks to the absence of cheap iPhones, Apple is forced to support even old phones that are still sold. I think it is a better strategy for the customer than providing new cheap phones. but I still think that even if that were the case, apple would continue to provide updates for the old system (as osx is supported in parallel)
Madam, the discussion as always war android vs iOS …. The article is nice and praise for it... But I will only add my subjective impressions to the discussion:
I have an iPhone 4 and as a private iPhone 4S and I have an HTC wildfireS and a Samsung "flagship" in my phone, the support from HTC drove me crazy when they released a new update and I waited three months for the possibility to download it because America, Japan and Western Europe have priority and because their servers are weak, I can't play them all at once :((( well, that's our pretext! So I ended up in a ditch.... I bought a Samsung and basically no update has been sent since I bought it, but what do you expect from a company that makes everything from toasters, via TVs , cars and even tanks, everything??? Logically, I can't do anything properly!!!! That would have to involve half the planet in development and support :)))) and when it froze a couple of times, it ended up in the basement and was replaced by an iPhone 4S
Why? Because I don't have a problem here, I'm not solving anything and I'm just a user who doesn't have a problem and I don't have to study 300 different forums for something to work :((((
I have the same experience with tablets (not those from Zentiva :) ) I have samsung, ipad, acer, asus and archos and I can tell everyone that the new system 3.2 for tablets brought many good changes to android, but in terms of quality it is still only on about 85% iOS as far as the comfort of use is concerned! But if you want a good tablet and especially for cheap money, buy ARCHOS, that's the company that produced tablets long ago for Apple and before Samsung, and now they make the new generation G9 in 8" and 10" and for €200 you won't get anything better, except maybe a subsidized Samsung with a two-year warranty contract from orange which is not useful :))))
So, please, end the stupid wars and let everyone buy what they want. I'm a moron and I like to test new things, but the market, as mentioned here, is developing so fast that a lot of companies can't keep up with serious development and bring such rubbish to the market. they were just to release something, so instead of guessing, please exchange experiences so that you don't have a pile of garbage like ME!!!!
Yesterday, the news came that Samsung will release Android 4.0 for the Galaxy S and Tab.
I don't own the old tab, but the new one with Honeycomb and I have to say that even if it has some bugs, I wouldn't exchange it for the current iPad for several reasons (resolution, need for iTunes, flash, multimedia - some playbacks in the app store are already available, but they are in 720p rips like a rope, work with data and other functions)
Well, you see, I tried it with the Galaxy tab, and even if the system isn't bad, I wouldn't replace it either, it doesn't have an application and it's easily attackable, so it's not very usable against the iPad2 anyway. And before there are applications, it will be iPad3 again and the difference will deepen even more, in addition, win8 will come, which will take away Android customers, not iOS
what application? because I had a problem finding applications on the iPad that I found on Tab?
and what is attackable?
Can someone give me a reasonable answer to why the font of these pages is so hideous and practically unreadable? (MF8.0)… it is an abomination of magnificence…
It reads perfectly normal to me :) how about glasses?
As far as I know, Arial/Helvetica are some of the most used fonts on the web, so the problem will probably be yours…
It was promised above, and as I'm a pipe and I can't download a call recording program from applestore. Would someone be so kind as to write the name of the mentioned program on the appstore, cydia, any warez that is available on planet Earth? I will gladly pay for it and use it. And you little sheep with Nick Dave, what are you asking about, what is Flash - what about SLEDUJ.ORG and practically online serials that are now being broadcast in our country and around the world. But I don't want to promote it. With every sheep that switches to normal platforms, the data traffic increases and as a result the speed of my video stream decreases - so you better not even read it... :-) And otherwise, the 3gs is lying like crap on the table and has the function of a spare phone - I'll shoot it for 7000 NOK ( I have a sg2, so unused-one more year under warranty, JB 4,3,3-Memory 32Gb!!! – email: skladuhli@atlas.cz - feel free to write to anyone who is interested, otherwise they will spend the summer on the handlebars of a motorcycle like com.device - it is not suitable for anything else)