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And taking more than six months to send software to users is certainly nothing to write home about, regardless.
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So does that really qualify as "getting better"? I guess it depends on your perspective.Īs for HTC and Motorola, neither has delivered an Android 10 update to any current-gen flagship yet, so it's impossible to say anything concrete - but even if one or the other does manage to do a bit better than last year, the standard for improvement is so laughably low that it won't mean much. Neither company is achieving new ground, in other words it's just coming down from an embarrassingly bad four-year run and going back to the same underwhelming performance it pulled off five years ago. And LG isn't even quite touching its 2014 level of mediocrity. But even relatively speaking, Samsung is simply returning to the level of ho-hum performance it showed back in 2014, with Lollipop. First of all, taking 100-plus days to get a major operating system update into the hands of a company's highest-paying customers is in and of itself nothing to celebrate.
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We'll talk more about Treble in a moment, but first, two other players show noteworthy improvements in their current-gen flagship upgrade performance: Samsung, which shaved its delivery time down from 213 days with Oreo to 177 days with Pie and then 106 days with Android 10 - and LG, which for the first time ever got a bit better this year by going from 298 days for last year's upgrade to 129 days for this one.īut, well, when you look at the big picture, you quickly realize that neither of those is actually that grand of an evolution. (2017 was the first year OnePlus was included in my Report Card, by the way, which is why you don't see any data for it in the previous cycles.)
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That's an exemplary arc showing exactly how Google wanted update delivery processing to improve as a result of its Project Treble optimizations for Android - a series of steps implemented in 2018 to separate the software into multiple layers and make the updating process easier to pull off.
It went from a 138-day delivery day with 2017's Oreo release down to 47 days with last year's Android Pie software and then a mere 18 days with this year's Android 10 update. So what do we see there? Well, the company that deserves the most credit in terms of sheer improvement is OnePlus. You can read more about my methodology here.) JR device-owner could get the software in a typical situation.
That gives us a consistent metric for comparison and allows us to assess how quickly a typical U.S. (As a reminder, my data focuses specifically on U.S.-based versions of devices. This first chart shows the total number of days from the time of an Android OS update's release to its first appearance on a company's current-gen flagship - from this current cycle all the way back to the Android Lollipop launch in 2014. We'll start with the relatively positive news, though, specific to those current-gen flagships: On that front, with Android 10, we saw some genuine, heartening improvements from a few different sources. But since they tend to be less top of mind in terms of mainstream media attention, they also tend to be where companies cut some disconcerting corners. As a general rule, Android device-makers commit to providing updates for two years to top-tier devices, which means those year-old phones are every bit as important as their more recent siblings. One thing folks frequently forget when talking about the state of Android upgrades is that there are two separate fronts we have to consider - the current-generation flagship phones, at the time of an upgrade's arrival, and then the previous-gen flagship phones alongside 'em. Android upgrades: All flagships are not equal
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