On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote:
> Firmware upgrades are an expense to both vendors and carriers that benefits > mostly the Android ecosystem, not the vendor / carrier, so both would rather > sell you a new phone / contract. > Do carriers really make much money selling phones? I would have thought they made a lot more on services. In that case, having existing customers keep the same phone for a long time, rather than buying another subsidised one should be more lucrative. Obviously, I have no idea how this works in reality. For manufacturers, it should work like any other project: you include maintenance costs in the price. they push the phones with their crapware on it, firmware upgrade or not I don't know about carrier-branded phones, but I find that the HTC apps generally look good and work well (the clock & weather widget is one flashy example), despite some people calling them crapware. Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
