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  • Hoping to capitalize on Apple battery controversy, HTC and Motorola volunteer that they do...

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    They don’t throttle. They game benchmarks to make their phones appear faster than they really are. If there should be a lawsuit for false and misleading advertisement inducing customers to buy sub-standard phones, they would be the targets. 

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks
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  • Android O, Google's response to Apple's iOS 11, will be revealed next Monday amid solar ec...

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    gatorguy said:

    Here's what I suspect will be a surprising list of the Android enhancements that have been made available in just the past four months, totally independent of any OS update and available to almost any Google Android user regardless of OS version.
    gatorguy said:
    Comparing OS versions between iOS and Android is a bit misleading anyway. With iOS new features are delivered only via an OS update. With Android many of the very latest features are available to nearly every user.  Android owners aren't as dependent on the latest OS version as iOS users might assume.
    http://www.computerworld.com/article/3216104/android/android-upgrade.html

    Is that a good excuse for OEM's to be so horribly bad at rolling out OS and security updates when Google sends them out? Not at all. It's stupid and lazy and not at all buyer friendly. But Android owners aren't actually missing out on as much as an iOS user who can't  or won't take advantage of an OS update for whatever reason. 
    First of all, those Google apps are individual app updates. They are not considered essential parts of the operating system, which is why they are on Google Play. If they were essential to the operating system, then there's a contradiction. i.e. how would you download an essential part of the system when it can't even boot up in the first place? Secondly, even if we don't agree on what constitutes an operating system, some apps DO require a minimum OS version e.g. Google Allo requires Android 4.1 and above. I couldn't be bothered to check the other apps.
    tmaybadmonkwatto_cobraRayz2016