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Google should use more stickGoogle should use more stickPosted Jun 30, 2012 20:27 UTC (Sat) by Tester (subscriber, #40675)Parent article: Google plans to ease the Android update problem (The H)
One thing I heard (unconfirmed) is that Google shared some of the advertisement revenue with the OEMs and the carriers. Maybe they can use that stick to force them to upgrade. Lets say, "no more money for you if all of your phones that match the requirements aren't ported in 3 months" or something. Or maybe cut of Market access to new phones unless the old ones are ported.
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Google should use more stick Posted Jul 3, 2012 10:27 UTC (Tue) by rich0 (guest, #55509) [Link]
Or they could be even less onerous and just offer a higher reimbursement rate for newer phones. Movie studios do something like this with theaters to encourage keeping movies playing - the longer it plays the higher the cut for the theater. This would work the other way around - the newer the OS the better the cut. That encourages carriers to both sell newer phones and update older ones.
Maybe work out the change so that based on current numbers the carriers make the same amount of money so they won't complain, but they now have incentive to make even more.
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