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Originally Posted by Fritzly
IMO MS should reverse course ASAP; the longer they wait the more it will cost to correct the trend. As it is the situation will only get worse....
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Good luck with that, my friend. I'm not trying to defend MS. I'd really like to see the update path change as well. Imagine being MS and meeting with carrier X trying to make sure they stay with you, with all these competitive options available such as iPhone, Android and so on, and telling them that if they do stay with you they must agree to allow MS direct access to their phones which are in the hands of the carriers customers, not MS's, so that MS can do updates. It's just not going to happen soon. Microsoft don't have anywhere near a strong enough position to make demands like that. If I were carrier X I would be showing MS the door and making room for the Android guy to take a seat.
I don't like it either, I'm just looking at it from a very realistic point of view regardless of how much you/me or the rest of us want it to change.
Dave