(credit: Ron Amadeo)
A report from Bloomberg claims that Google is going to take yet another swing at making manufacturers care about Android updates. This time the plan is apparently to "shame" OEMs into updating their devices.
Google has "drawn up lists that rank top phone makers by how up-to-date their handsets are, based on security patches and operating system versions" according to the report. Google has apparently shared this list with OEMs already and has "discussed making it public" in the hopes that OEMs will do better at updating their devices as a result.
This isn't the first time Google has tried to entice OEMs to update their devices. At Google I/O 2011, Google triumphantly announced the "Android Update Alliance," an agreement where Google and OEMs would work to ensure devices got 18 months of updates. A year later everyone promptly forgot about it, and it hasn't been mentioned since.
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