I am embarrassed to have used FP products for so long

[Martin_Anderseck]

@david92

When checking LinkedIn, they seem to only have 1 or 2 dedicated Android specialists (like for OS/Kernel development, not app development for Android) and the main development work is being done by T2Mobile in China. That may be the reason they only push one update per month as they don’t want to pay additional fees for more regular updates or any hotfix releases.

Interesting study you have made there. Nevertheless let me counter some of your conclusions:

1. Not everyone is on LinkedIn, so the number may be right or completely wrong. But why should they have a huge group of Android specialists if they have a company doing that for them?
2. How well that works is a different question. But how many updates would you like to see per month? Weekly? Daily? I’d be looking forward to people complaining about their phones only being busy with updates.
3. By bringing more updates and hotfixes it’ll get more and more complicated to figure out where potential new issues were introduced (and that may always happen). You’ve done all daily updates of the last two weeks and suddenly one of your rarely used apps won’t work anymore? Good luck in figuring out where that issue came from.
4. I don’t know how much time this Google certification takes for each release, but there’s definitely a difference between a daily build of a custom ROM and the release of an official firmware.

Having said that I don’t want to say things couldn’t be better. Fortunately, for what I do with my FP5 I’m not impacted by any bigger issues, but I understand that also features that not everyone uses should work for those who need them.