my lilttle brother was telling me about an article he read on his lepan tablet website, apparently with the number of smartphones and tablets, alot of devices havent been getting updates, of course the triumph is worse then most with it, other devices normally get security or firmware updates every now and then
but my little brother bought the lepan 2 when it first cam out and it was supposed to be able to get an ics upgrade right from the get go, that tablet didnt get the ICS update until like 2 weeks ago and it was only the 7th tablet to get the ICS update
The best part is about a week and a half after he bought the tablet, his exact tablet was available with ICS on it already, yet his which came with honeycomb needed to wait 4 months till it was able to get the upgrade, and Now theres Jellybean lol
and while most of what ive been saying is about a tablet its been the same for alot of phones as well, the companies have been failing to put out updates in alot of cases and if you think about it, its all about money
if you buy a $300 phone like the triumph and it got updates often then by now we would already have official JB on our phones, but that means as long as were happy were not giving them more $$$, so they only get $300, BUT if you have a $300 phone like the triumph that gets 0 updates and never gets an android update even tho it was sold saying it would then eventually your going to ditch it for a better phone by them or a different manufacturer
so then you offer the people $100 for there $300 phone so they feel like there atleast getting something, and they must use that 100 towards a new motorola phone, the cheapest of which i think ive seen is the Razr M for $100, so again the people think there winning when its basically a free Upgrade which contract companies give there customers every 2 years or something
then a year or so from now they can do something similar to try and keep people coming back to them