4.0.4 was apparently not being made for the Verizon Nexus is what I've heard, but obviously this could be bullsh*t.
But it feels like there is such a simple solution to this, Google just isn't willing to or simply aren't capable of putting the pressure on the carriers to keep the updates in sync.
It doesn't bother me that much because I don't actually have signal issues and whatnot with my Nexus thankfully, but I'm more worried for the future of Android devices as a whole.
We're seeing this problem snowball as more and more phones come out and android versions continue to lag behind. I mean my father asked me to help him do something on his Droid X the other day and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out where everything was because of blur/GB. I mean that's insane, I consider myself a phone nerd and yet because I use stock android(ics) constantly it takes me 5 minutes to figure out something on another android device just because it has a skin on top of it and it's still using GB. So it has an old version of Android and a manufacturer's skin on top of it, making it difficult to even figure out simple tasks when you're used to stock android or another version of android/skin.
They have to streamline the update process and get devices on the same version of Android(and get rid of skins), it's gotten completely out of control and it literally ruins the ecosystem that makes the Iphone community so connected, seamless and attractive to users. Android might hold the largest current market share, but the users are so scattered it's as if we're all using different operating systems altogether.
But it feels like there is such a simple solution to this, Google just isn't willing to or simply aren't capable of putting the pressure on the carriers to keep the updates in sync.
It doesn't bother me that much because I don't actually have signal issues and whatnot with my Nexus thankfully, but I'm more worried for the future of Android devices as a whole.
We're seeing this problem snowball as more and more phones come out and android versions continue to lag behind. I mean my father asked me to help him do something on his Droid X the other day and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out where everything was because of blur/GB. I mean that's insane, I consider myself a phone nerd and yet because I use stock android(ics) constantly it takes me 5 minutes to figure out something on another android device just because it has a skin on top of it and it's still using GB. So it has an old version of Android and a manufacturer's skin on top of it, making it difficult to even figure out simple tasks when you're used to stock android or another version of android/skin.
They have to streamline the update process and get devices on the same version of Android(and get rid of skins), it's gotten completely out of control and it literally ruins the ecosystem that makes the Iphone community so connected, seamless and attractive to users. Android might hold the largest current market share, but the users are so scattered it's as if we're all using different operating systems altogether.
