(credit: Aurich Lawson)
This just in: Android updates are still really slow. The latest numbers put the seven-month-old Android 6.0 Marshmallow at just 7.5 percent of devices. That's an average of just over one percent per month, so if this keeps up, by 2020 the majority of devices will be compatible with Marshmallow or higher. Great.
Google's latest attempt at fixing Android's update problem reportedly involves "a list." On this list, OEMs are ranked by how fast they deliver updates, which the report says is used to "highlight proactive manufacturers and shame tardy vendors." Google has even thought about making this list public.
Does anyone think this is going to work? Can "shame" really be the driving force behind getting companies to update? We'd imagine "making the list public" would mean posting it to a website—is that really going to compete with the millions of dollars these companies spend on advertising?
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