Google’s Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead ⇥

Jamie Lendino, for PC Magazine:

At the Google I/O conference in May, many Android phone vendors and U.S. wireless carriers made a long-awaited promise: From then on, any new Android phone would receive timely OS updates for at least 18 months following launch, as part of the then newly christened Google Update Alliance. […] So seven months in, we thought we’d circle back and ask all those vendors an important question: How’s it going? Here’s what they had to say—and unfortunately, it’s not at all good.

In the end, it’s the customers that lose.