Price of Software Updates

I’ve been having a lot of trouble with my Galaxy SII after the ICS FF18 OTA update last month, but as I was googling around for some workarounds or solutions, I came across a very pointed piece written a couple months back by a business user who spent a couple days trying to fix Swype and bookmarks/web on his SII post-FF18. It would be TL;DR except for the fact that he makes a very good point about the Android platform that cannot be ignored, and that is that because of the fact that it is open and in the hands of several phone manufacturers, updating these devices with each new update Google releases makes it hard to bug fix and test with so much different hardware, a relative non-issue for Apple and less of an issue for Windows Mobile.

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