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Originally Posted by NYCHitman1
We're DEFINITELY NOT getting 2.1 this month. It'll most likely be late April to early May. Either way, I don't care. I'm satisfied with my phone and I'm not gonna keep beating myself up like some other people do here about an update I wasn't entitled to in the first place lol.
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Well, here's the thing about Android: the apps market is kinda important. Sure, developers are supposed to use the lowest SDK level that they can, but a lot of them either just use the latest version of Android of the phone they have or need to use a later Android version for some SDK functionality that they want to use. So someone with a phone with 1.5 or 1.6 is missing out more and more on apps that just aren't even available in the market for them.
And buying a Hero (as I see you have) sometime in the last 5 months, you have already been missing out on apps. As each month goes by that 1.5 is out-of-date, less new apps will show up for you. This is essentially the fragmentation issue.
Now I like my Hero right now, but I don't intend to keep it for more than a year, so eventually I'll get a phone with whatever the latest Android version is at that time. But buying a brand new phone and then immediately ending up with a lack of access to new apps within a month of purchase just isn't a great situation. This is the problem with thinking that no one is entitled to get an update. I would expect at least one Android version update for any phone within the first 6 months of that phone being available. And don't tell me to just root...I don't want to even though my profession is a software engineer. As Android gains market share, people like my Mom can end up with an Android phone and someone like that isn't going to root.