HTC Says Lollipop Rollout Going Slower Than Hoped
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With HTC
announcing a One M9 device in March, it honestly does not even matter when Lollipop update will complete as M9 will have it out of the box. Many M7 and M8 owners will be looking to upgrade.
However, I'd rather wait and have HTC and carriers do the roll-out correctly rather than quickly.
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Remember just a few years ago HTC was the leader in upgrading software, and Samsung was the slowest, the tables turned, and now Samsung and LG are the fastest, and HTC makes promises it knew it couldnt keep.
Here is an idea, ditch all the bloatware UI of Sense.
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Sense is a fantastic skin on top of Android and is much less invasive than Samsung. HTC has already updated a lot of the HTC ONE phones. Samsung has only updated the Verizon version in the states. Has LG updated any phones to lollipop?
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The average user is upgrading their phone every two years at best (unless they break it first.) That's why upgrades within the first two years of a product are important.
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But now with phone financing they may start to upgrade every year.
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They may also start upgrading less often. Now if they don't upgrade their bill will eventually go down. The fact that you were paying for a new phone as part of your service plan anyway even if you didn't upgrade caused some to upgrade who might otherwise have made their old phone work longer to cut costs.
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