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		<title>By: 秀年 许</title>
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		<dc:creator>秀年 许</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;a&gt;The exhibit is  called &quot;Picasso to Koons: Artist as
Jeweler.&quot; You probably will 
recognize the names of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
jacket&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; many of the more than one hundred artists  represented at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
jackets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;show. Names like
Georges Braque, Max Ernst,  Alexander
Calder and Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson and&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; barbour
uk.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;


  One hundred thirty of the rings, necklaces,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
ladies&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; and 
brooches are from the collection of art expert Diane Venet. She helped
to set  up the exhibit.


  Ms. Venet 
met French sculptor Bernar Venet about twenty-six years ago. A short
time  later, he gave her a piece of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quilted
jackets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; silver 
designed as a ring. The ring celebrated the fact that they would soon be  married. Ms. Venet said it was the first
piece of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
quilted jackets &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;an 
artist&#039;s jewelry she had ever had.


  As time 
passed, Bernar Venet exchanged pieces with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mens barbour
jacket&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;artist friends
who sometimes created jewelry.  Ms.
Venet&#039;s personal collection grew and grew, and she decided to exhibit it  with works of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
mens&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; the other artists.


  Holly 
Hotchner is the director of the Museum   of Arts and Design. She  says the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ladies barbour
jackets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;museum 
considers jewelry as one of the most important forms of art today. She
notes  that a piece of jewelry&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kid’s barbour
jacket&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is not  just a small version of a sculpture.


&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ukbarboursales.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;



 

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<p><a>The exhibit is  called &quot;Picasso to Koons: Artist as<br />
Jeweler.&quot; You probably will <br />
recognize the names of </a><a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
jacket</strong> </a> many of the more than one hundred artists  represented at the <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
jackets</strong> </a><strong> </strong>show. Names like<br />
Georges Braque, Max Ernst,  Alexander<br />
Calder and Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson and<a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong> barbour<br />
uk.</strong></a></p>
<p>  One hundred thirty of the rings, necklaces,<br />
<a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
ladies</strong> </a> and <br />
brooches are from the collection of art expert Diane Venet. She helped<br />
to set  up the exhibit.</p>
<p>  Ms. Venet <br />
met French sculptor Bernar Venet about twenty-six years ago. A short<br />
time  later, he gave her a piece of <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>quilted<br />
jackets</strong> </a> silver <br />
designed as a ring. The ring celebrated the fact that they would soon be  married. Ms. Venet said it was the first<br />
piece of <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
quilted jackets </strong> </a>an <br />
artist&#8217;s jewelry she had ever had.</p>
<p>  As time <br />
passed, Bernar Venet exchanged pieces with <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>mens barbour<br />
jacket</strong> </a><strong> </strong>artist friends<br />
who sometimes created jewelry.  Ms.<br />
Venet&#8217;s personal collection grew and grew, and she decided to exhibit it  with works of <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
mens</strong> </a> the other artists.</p>
<p>  Holly <br />
Hotchner is the director of the Museum   of Arts and Design. She  says the <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>ladies barbour<br />
jackets</strong> </a>museum <br />
considers jewelry as one of the most important forms of art today. She<br />
notes  that a piece of jewelry<strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>kid’s barbour<br />
jacket</strong><strong> </strong> </a>is not  just a small version of a sculpture.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ukbarboursales.com</a></strong></p>
<p> </p>
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		<title>By: paul smith uk</title>
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		<dc:creator>paul smith uk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: RB</title>
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		<dc:creator>RB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article; completely agree with your perspective on this.  I still have my venerable OG Droid and it still just works.  I am finally planning to get a new phone when the Galaxy Nexus is out.  But I am admittedly reluctant to move off this device with which I&#039;ve become so familiar.  My Point?  That it doesn&#039;t matter to me how many bazillion different phones come out.  Everyone (well, many of them) just raises the bar for the next one I eventually will buy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article; completely agree with your perspective on this.  I still have my venerable OG Droid and it still just works.  I am finally planning to get a new phone when the Galaxy Nexus is out.  But I am admittedly reluctant to move off this device with which I&#8217;ve become so familiar.  My Point?  That it doesn&#8217;t matter to me how many bazillion different phones come out.  Everyone (well, many of them) just raises the bar for the next one I eventually will buy.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My biggest issue with the relentless growth of android is that the software is evolving at such a rapid pace, that the hardware just can&#039;t keep up.  This is especially true of non-vanilla Android devices that have lots of UI overlays.  Just look at the original Droid and Nexus ones.  not quite 2 years old and already museum pieces because they can&#039;t really handle the demands of the underlying software without hanging up.  Don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;m a HUGE android fan and love the software.  I just wish that the hardware wold do a better job of keeping up with it.  For me the best policy when buying android is to buy vanilla android devices and the highest hardware specs I can find.  Usually this means a nexus or a high end device that gets rooted to run vanilla android or some other relatively light variant (cyanogen?).  I know that for 4.0 I&#039;m doing a Galaxy Nexus for the very reasons mentioned above.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My biggest issue with the relentless growth of android is that the software is evolving at such a rapid pace, that the hardware just can&#8217;t keep up.  This is especially true of non-vanilla Android devices that have lots of UI overlays.  Just look at the original Droid and Nexus ones.  not quite 2 years old and already museum pieces because they can&#8217;t really handle the demands of the underlying software without hanging up.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m a HUGE android fan and love the software.  I just wish that the hardware wold do a better job of keeping up with it.  For me the best policy when buying android is to buy vanilla android devices and the highest hardware specs I can find.  Usually this means a nexus or a high end device that gets rooted to run vanilla android or some other relatively light variant (cyanogen?).  I know that for 4.0 I&#8217;m doing a Galaxy Nexus for the very reasons mentioned above.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to be restricted to one phone a year and be guaranteed timely updates, there&#039;s simple solution; buy a Nexus device. With a Nexus device, you&#039;re pretty much guaranteed 2 years of updates just like the iPhone and there&#039;s only one completely new Nexus phone about once a year. You may not get all the features you want, but you don&#039;t with an iPhone either. Android is about choice, and in this instance its a choice between guaranteed timely updates or the latest greatest features on the carrier of your choice.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to be restricted to one phone a year and be guaranteed timely updates, there&#8217;s simple solution; buy a Nexus device. With a Nexus device, you&#8217;re pretty much guaranteed 2 years of updates just like the iPhone and there&#8217;s only one completely new Nexus phone about once a year. You may not get all the features you want, but you don&#8217;t with an iPhone either. Android is about choice, and in this instance its a choice between guaranteed timely updates or the latest greatest features on the carrier of your choice.</p>
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		<title>By: Xboxkid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Xboxkid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;SPARE ME!&#8221; -White Goodman(Dodgeball)</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Err, its call PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE: &quot;The deliberate withholding of efficiency so that a product breaks down relatively fast in relationship to maintaining its consumption cycle.&quot; 

In the past, it was called VALUE ENGINEERING. Back in its hay day, manufacturers boasted how they could purposely make fallible products forcing consumers to ever-continue to  buy more and more CHEAP goods.

The end-of-contract agreement is moot and bleak when stacked against planned obsolescence. Not everyone upgrades at the end of the contract, instead phones are manufactured to NOT LAST BEYOND 24 MONTHS, forcing you, the consumer, to go out and buy your next piece of 2yr-live cycle crap. If phones were made to last longer than 20-24 months, then you could clearly see that producing phones to accommodate consumers reaching their of year contract is not based on consumer&#039;s choice, but on manufacturer&#039;s trying to maintain YOUR CONSUMPTION cycle which helps their bottom line So who&#039;s the real Droid?

I just wish we would stop usurping all of the earth&#039;s natural resources, because at this production rate, we all know that not all inventories are depleted in tandem with consumption, which leads to waste!

&#039;Nuff said... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Err, its call PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE: &#8220;The deliberate withholding of efficiency so that a product breaks down relatively fast in relationship to maintaining its consumption cycle.&#8221; </p>
<p>In the past, it was called VALUE ENGINEERING. Back in its hay day, manufacturers boasted how they could purposely make fallible products forcing consumers to ever-continue to  buy more and more CHEAP goods.</p>
<p>The end-of-contract agreement is moot and bleak when stacked against planned obsolescence. Not everyone upgrades at the end of the contract, instead phones are manufactured to NOT LAST BEYOND 24 MONTHS, forcing you, the consumer, to go out and buy your next piece of 2yr-live cycle crap. If phones were made to last longer than 20-24 months, then you could clearly see that producing phones to accommodate consumers reaching their of year contract is not based on consumer&#8217;s choice, but on manufacturer&#8217;s trying to maintain YOUR CONSUMPTION cycle which helps their bottom line So who&#8217;s the real Droid?</p>
<p>I just wish we would stop usurping all of the earth&#8217;s natural resources, because at this production rate, we all know that not all inventories are depleted in tandem with consumption, which leads to waste!</p>
<p>&#8216;Nuff said&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a downside... Not only are phones coming out to quick, they are not coming with the software or hardware advertised to it... This is a big problem... Next we have the updating issue... Where as HTC said &quot; Only new released phones get the newest update; Period&quot;... I consider this a BIG flaw and a problem more than the phone coming or not coming with the intended software at release... Thirdly and finally the main reason why I disagree is the pricing... When you go get a new phone, and then the price drops a week later, who would be pissed they paid an extra 100 smackers? But congruently the prices of phones are on the rise, look at the razor, its is 700 without a contract, so would this mean that it would go for 299.99 for a 2yr contract or would this mean it would be 400 to 450 smackers with a 2yr? 

Then you also have to mention, that just because you get some sweet features on a phone, you better bet that all the carriers are looking for ways to tax that new feature so there lies a problem... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a downside&#8230; Not only are phones coming out to quick, they are not coming with the software or hardware advertised to it&#8230; This is a big problem&#8230; Next we have the updating issue&#8230; Where as HTC said &#8221; Only new released phones get the newest update; Period&#8221;&#8230; I consider this a BIG flaw and a problem more than the phone coming or not coming with the intended software at release&#8230; Thirdly and finally the main reason why I disagree is the pricing&#8230; When you go get a new phone, and then the price drops a week later, who would be pissed they paid an extra 100 smackers? But congruently the prices of phones are on the rise, look at the razor, its is 700 without a contract, so would this mean that it would go for 299.99 for a 2yr contract or would this mean it would be 400 to 450 smackers with a 2yr? </p>
<p>Then you also have to mention, that just because you get some sweet features on a phone, you better bet that all the carriers are looking for ways to tax that new feature so there lies a problem&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: gwprcd c</title>
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		<dc:creator>gwprcd c</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 phone per year is iVoldemort idea. And if these people think Android is moving too fast, why didn&#039;t they make noise about the rate the laptop/PC is churned out with Win 7 (or WinXP before this)? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1 phone per year is iVoldemort idea. And if these people think Android is moving too fast, why didn&#8217;t they make noise about the rate the laptop/PC is churned out with Win 7 (or WinXP before this)? </p>
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		<title>By: lose the baby weight</title>
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		<dc:creator>lose the baby weight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#039;ll keep churning out shiny new hand held objects
while the masses keep getting suckered into new toys.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;ll keep churning out shiny new hand held objects<br />
while the masses keep getting suckered into new toys.</p>
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		<title>By: Raphael Uduhiri</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raphael Uduhiri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real issues lies with the carriers as it is the manufacturers job to sell as many handsets as possible. We do not buy phones from htc, motorola or samsung, we buy from Sprint, AT&amp;T, Verizon and TMO. It is the the carriers that are demanding all these phones and all the iterations that are flooding the market. I&#039;m all for the latest technology but cases like LG saying it wont upgrade the LG2x to ICS is just unacceptable. 
At the end of the day the market will decide....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real issues lies with the carriers as it is the manufacturers job to sell as many handsets as possible. We do not buy phones from htc, motorola or samsung, we buy from Sprint, AT&amp;T, Verizon and TMO. It is the the carriers that are demanding all these phones and all the iterations that are flooding the market. I&#8217;m all for the latest technology but cases like LG saying it wont upgrade the LG2x to ICS is just unacceptable.<br />
At the end of the day the market will decide&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Intel has a chance to do something unique when they truly enter the Android market. Intel needs to, as a chip manufacturer, require phone manufacturers to run stock Android on Intel processors. The reason behind this is that Intel could provide a consistent user experience across all Intel Android devices as well as produce more timely updates for Intel devices.

Handset manufacturers are going to want to continue to skin their devices to differentiate them. Chip manufacturers on the other hand, don&#039;t have the same desires. Chip manufacturers want people to know that their chips perform well and give consumers a reason to buy devices powered by their chips over another. Therefore, I think the issue of stock Android lies squarely with chip manufacturers and who better to carry the torch than Intel? For other chip manufacturers, changing their policy now may be suicide. Intel has nothing to lose. Phone manufacturers would probably resist, but if Intel can get enough quality devices into the market rocking vanilla Android and there&#039;s enough interest generated, I think manufacturers will lower their guard. I think chip manufacturers need to drive the phone manufacturers to provide timely updates to existing products.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Intel has a chance to do something unique when they truly enter the Android market. Intel needs to, as a chip manufacturer, require phone manufacturers to run stock Android on Intel processors. The reason behind this is that Intel could provide a consistent user experience across all Intel Android devices as well as produce more timely updates for Intel devices.</p>
<p>Handset manufacturers are going to want to continue to skin their devices to differentiate them. Chip manufacturers on the other hand, don&#8217;t have the same desires. Chip manufacturers want people to know that their chips perform well and give consumers a reason to buy devices powered by their chips over another. Therefore, I think the issue of stock Android lies squarely with chip manufacturers and who better to carry the torch than Intel? For other chip manufacturers, changing their policy now may be suicide. Intel has nothing to lose. Phone manufacturers would probably resist, but if Intel can get enough quality devices into the market rocking vanilla Android and there&#8217;s enough interest generated, I think manufacturers will lower their guard. I think chip manufacturers need to drive the phone manufacturers to provide timely updates to existing products.</p>
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		<title>By: KeyboardFan</title>
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		<dc:creator>KeyboardFan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly.]]></description>
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		<title>By: Bharath Ramesh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bharath Ramesh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the current trend of android phone continue where most phones are outdated even as they are released and manufacturers dont bother to update them or are out of support for firmware upgrades in less than a year people will start migrating away from android.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the current trend of android phone continue where most phones are outdated even as they are released and manufacturers dont bother to update them or are out of support for firmware upgrades in less than a year people will start migrating away from android.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2011/10/28/rebuttal-maybe-android-manufacturers-dont-need-to-slow-down-opinion/comment-page-2/#comment-906967</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Android partners needs to slow down, be more collaborative, or Google needs to assert more control ... right now, your best choices are to pay $600 for a phone with the latest hardware but old software (Razr), or a phone with the latest software but old hardware (Galaxy Nexus). The last hope is that the HTC Vigor (ReZound) has ICS so maybe you get the latest hardware and software ... IMHO

I don&#039;t care if my flagship phone becomes obsolete in a month ... It would be nice though, if it was a flagship phone, for at least a month.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Android partners needs to slow down, be more collaborative, or Google needs to assert more control &#8230; right now, your best choices are to pay $600 for a phone with the latest hardware but old software (Razr), or a phone with the latest software but old hardware (Galaxy Nexus). The last hope is that the HTC Vigor (ReZound) has ICS so maybe you get the latest hardware and software &#8230; IMHO</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care if my flagship phone becomes obsolete in a month &#8230; It would be nice though, if it was a flagship phone, for at least a month.</p>
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