Was there any other phone that got upgraded to Android 4.0 before Nexus S? As far as I know only the Transformer Prime and I think Motorola Xoom got 4.0, but those were already Honeycomb devices, and I believe they were significantly easier to upgrade to 4.0.
But I understand your concerns. For me the actual disappointment came from announcing the Nexus One would not receive it at all. The internal storage and the GPU might indeed suck for 4.0, but I find it hard to believe that there was absolutely no way to upgrade it, especially from the makers of Android. I'd expect a Nexus device to get at least 2 major version upgrades (so a 4.0 device would get 5.0 and 6.0, in this case).
Still, the Nexus tablet is something Google should've done a long time ago, and I was very surprised they didn't release a Nexus tablet in the same time with the Galaxy Nexus, to celebrate the unification of the phone and tablet software. To me that seemed like a no-brainer.
The fact that they decided to take the low-end and try to increase the Android tablet market share quickly, is also a welcome strategy, but I still think they need to be very aggressive about getting tablet-optimized apps from developers to be really successful.
Seems to me that the lack of a Google blessed tablet has a lot to do with why we're not seeing much in the tablet optimized app front. We need a stable development platform that's going to get updates at a reasonable clip. I don't want to have to buy a pile of devices or discard them left and right so I can dev on newer versions.
There are other reasons why tab apps are few and far between as well, but not having an n1 equivalent tablet held me back. I gave up waiting and bought a tf prime in December and am finally working on a tablet specific app, but I wonder how long before I'll have to replace it.
A product or service based on a reaction is driven by envy. not based on passion to innovate or the desire to provide a better service. it's just based on envy. all it cares about is what the other guy is doing.
This has been Google's strategy lately thanks to Larry Page.
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Was there any other phone that got upgraded to Android 4.0 before Nexus S? As far as I know only the Transformer Prime and I think Motorola Xoom got 4.0, but those were already Honeycomb devices, and I believe they were significantly easier to upgrade to 4.0.
But I understand your concerns. For me the actual disappointment came from announcing the Nexus One would not receive it at all. The internal storage and the GPU might indeed suck for 4.0, but I find it hard to believe that there was absolutely no way to upgrade it, especially from the makers of Android. I'd expect a Nexus device to get at least 2 major version upgrades (so a 4.0 device would get 5.0 and 6.0, in this case).
Still, the Nexus tablet is something Google should've done a long time ago, and I was very surprised they didn't release a Nexus tablet in the same time with the Galaxy Nexus, to celebrate the unification of the phone and tablet software. To me that seemed like a no-brainer.
The fact that they decided to take the low-end and try to increase the Android tablet market share quickly, is also a welcome strategy, but I still think they need to be very aggressive about getting tablet-optimized apps from developers to be really successful.
The Nexus One did get two major upgrades: Froyo and Gingerbread (after launching on Eclair). They just happened to be numbered 2.2 and 2.3.
Seems to me that the lack of a Google blessed tablet has a lot to do with why we're not seeing much in the tablet optimized app front. We need a stable development platform that's going to get updates at a reasonable clip. I don't want to have to buy a pile of devices or discard them left and right so I can dev on newer versions.
There are other reasons why tab apps are few and far between as well, but not having an n1 equivalent tablet held me back. I gave up waiting and bought a tf prime in December and am finally working on a tablet specific app, but I wonder how long before I'll have to replace it.
ANOTHER knee-jerk reaction from Google.
A product or service based on a reaction is driven by envy. not based on passion to innovate or the desire to provide a better service. it's just based on envy. all it cares about is what the other guy is doing.
This has been Google's strategy lately thanks to Larry Page.
Apple Facebook MS Yelp Groupon the list goes on and on...