App updating...ENDLESS app updating. Every day there's at least one nag on my phone telling me to update an app; more often it's a batch of apps that need updating.
Never mind the usual bug fixes that come with programming, never mind the app irritations that need mending with each Android OS refresh that Google occasionally issues; it's worse than that. It seems that with each new Android PHONE there's a ton of updates for almost every app that has to roll out in order to accommodate that new phone. Sure it doesn't really affect a 'grandfather' like my G1, but like do I really have a choice not to update? Not if I want to rid myself of the ever-present nags telling me that there are updates available. And after a while if I don't update each app then it's too easy to lose track of which app update is OS-specific and which is phone-specific. Android has become more work than it's worth.
People grouse about always having to do Windows Updates; at least that's usually only once a month. With Android apps it's become a daily exercise. Sure each app update usually only takes a few seconds, but group a bunch together and it takes several minutes...sometimes about as long as that monthly Windows update. And it requires MORE user monitoring and input than the Windows process. And with my G1, if I'm off the charger at the time of updating, I can ALWAYS count on these eating up a fair chunk of the available charge.
Shouldn't the hardware conform to the OS standards instead of the other way around? Why should I be inconvenienced by the appearance of a phone that I don't even intend on owning?
Reply 1 : It's official: Android sucks
You're right about the great usability and plenty of apps, but, on any of the android phones, it has a feature, if you want it to provide updates for the apps you've already installed, so if you don't want the updates, then just turn the feature off. Hope that provided you with some info.
Reply 2 : It's official: Android sucks
...but so far I've had no luck finding this sort of app update on/off 'switch' on my G1. At least it's not in the App controls within the phone's Settings management app, where it would make sense for it to be.
Every day this holiday weekend I've had at least four apps to update; it does get real tiring. The Droid and Android 2.0 are the biggest causes for these, but a lot of developers are still trying to get caught up to 1.6 which my G1 is running. I don't mind the nags for 1.6 because it is what my phone is depending on, but it's the updates for phones like the Droid that run 2.0 that REALLY drive me nuts. I wish Google had a process that could disseminate which app updates are for which phone and/or OS version, and provide the appropriate notifications to those specific phones and users.
Every day this holiday weekend I've had at least four apps to update; it does get real tiring. The Droid and Android 2.0 are the biggest causes for these, but a lot of developers are still trying to get caught up to 1.6 which my G1 is running. I don't mind the nags for 1.6 because it is what my phone is depending on, but it's the updates for phones like the Droid that run 2.0 that REALLY drive me nuts. I wish Google had a process that could disseminate which app updates are for which phone and/or OS version, and provide the appropriate notifications to those specific phones and users.
Reply 3 : It's official: Android sucks
You can make all the excuses and explanations for this piece of junk but the truth is it just plain old SUCKS.
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