{"id":14591,"date":"2019-02-14T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/14\/news-8340\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:30:03","slug":"news-8340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/14\/news-8340\/","title":{"rendered":"All about Android upgrades (and why they're late) | TECH(talk)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not exactly news that Android upgrades almost always take a lo-o-o-o-o-ng time to roll out to most users. As in months. Often, many months. Sometimes more than a year.<\/p>\n

Sometimes never.<\/p>\n

(There is an exception: Google delivers new versions of Android to its Pixel line right away, and did just that with the release of Android 9.0 (Pie)<\/a> last fall.)<\/p>\n

It’s now been six months since Pie arrived, which means it’s time for\u00a0Computerworld<\/em> blogger JR Raphael’s comprehensive look at how device-makers are doing<\/a>\u00a0when it comes to upgrades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Raphael joined Computerworld Executive Editor Ken Mingis to go over the findings, as well as discuss how Google’s Project Treble is working<\/a>. Treble is the company’s answer to slow update rollouts; it’s designed to streamline the process as much as possible to help the hardware folks push out updates quickly.<\/p>\n

(Spoiler: Project Treble doesn’t seem to have helped much.)<\/p>\n

Raphael then rounds out the discussion with insights into why <\/em>Android upgrades are so important<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For an audio-only version of this episode, click play (or catch up on all earlier episodes) below. Or you can\u00a0find us on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Pocket Casts<\/a>, where you can download each episode and listen at your leisure.<\/p>\n