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ICS leak .247 for Bionic (Dead End)

I think it is approaching critical mass.

On one side you have iPhone in what four models?

Just for fun ... go to the main index of forums on this website and see how many Android phones there are ... then co sider that close to all of them are customized.

It is hard to believe that the Android "every phone is different" approach is going to survive. There has to be some standardization ... at least by manufacturer.

... Thom
 
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Anyone here know if windows phones are packed with bloat?
I would like to know this as well. If no, I have to say I may give serious consideration to a Windows 8 phone next year.

I like the Android, but I agree with Thom, this desire to have every Android phone different just fragments the entire community. Would love to see Google try to make it so Android device makers use the standard OS and then each OEM can make sure it's optimized to their device.

If someone wants customization after that, there will always be apps that will do the job just as there is now.
 
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So you found ONE phone. WOO HOO! :) Here's a cookie. But it doesn't change the fact that every other phone on VZW's network has bloatware of some kind. All Android phones do. There hasn't been a true GED without bloatware in quite a while. I seriously doubt the W8 phones are going to escape. The only reason the iPhone did is cause Apple has THAT much pull.
 
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So you found ONE phone. WOO HOO! :) Here's a cookie. But it doesn't change the fact that every other phone on VZW's network has bloatware of some kind. All Android phones do. There hasn't been a true GED without bloatware in quite a while. I seriously doubt the W8 phones are going to escape. The only reason the iPhone did is cause Apple has THAT much pull.

But wouldn't that be just one of two relevant OS's at this point? Blackberry from what I have heard may actually go under, and right now doesn't iOS and Android account for like over 90% of the market share?
 
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Sure, but, eventually VZW will get their claws into iPhone and muck it up with bloatware, as well. Just give them time. They're all about the greed.
I don't know. I think Apple would be willing to say goodbye to Verizon. I mean they were willing to stay with one carrier for quite a while and aren't even on all carriers yet.

And when AT&T got the iPhone originally they passed Verizon in total customers and didn't it take Verizon buying like Alltell to get the lead back?

I've just never seen Apple willingly give up total control over their products and I don't think they will in this case. And wasn't it Verizon they originally approached and Verizon said they wanted bloatware and Apple went to AT&T instead and was Verizon who agreed to the no bloatware to get the iPhone finally?
 
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Yes, and Samsung resisted locking the firmware on their most popular phone in the world, too. Oh, wait, no, they didn't. :) Don't count out VZW's greed. Ever.
Oh I have little doubt you're right and Verizon will try, what I don't think will happen is Apple agreeing to it. I think they believe, and likely rightly so, that their customers will follow them if they left any one carrier so Apple wouldn't be the one taking any loss.
 
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Apple delays iOS 4.3 for CDMA Verizon iPhone

Apparently you've never looked. :) That delay was due to VZW not signing off on it. The official explanation of "it uses a different baseband so it needed a separate update" is nonsense.

No, you are misinterpreting. That story says nothing about Verizon not signing off on it. iOS4 had a separate build for CDMA (or, Verizon) iPhones and GSM iPhones and other iOS devices. 4.2.5 through 4.2.10 were all CDMA-only updates, provided in parallel with 4.3.1 through 4.3.5 (4.2.9 was released the same day as 4.3.4, for example; 4.2.10 the same day as 4.3.5.) Since iOS5, all Verizon iPhones (and iPads) have received the same update on the same schedule as all other iPhones (because, of course, Apple controls the distribution - not Verizon.)

If you have evidence that Verizon has the contractual ability to delay iOS updates, I'd love to see it.
 
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