Seems to me that Windows has a pretty decent update mechanism with "Windows Update". It's consistent, automated, and for the most part keeps clueless user's PCs up to date.
Enter Windows Phone - they have very minimal control over how the updates are pushed other than their creation.
I'm not stupid and I realize there's firmware and radio drivers and all kinds of crap at play when it comes to a phone - BUT
If there are aspects of the OS that have nothing to do with the radio drivers - why can't Microsoft just update its own software? It doesn't need any "special" control from the carriers. Everyone spouts off about how Apple has some special privilege to push updates. There's nothing special - they create 1 phone - iPhone, which includes radios that will work on almost any band, any country, anywhere in the world. This makes it quite easy to control the updates since you can package everything up to work across any carrier.
Why can't Microsoft do this? I hope they do it with Win10.
Enter Windows Phone - they have very minimal control over how the updates are pushed other than their creation.
I'm not stupid and I realize there's firmware and radio drivers and all kinds of crap at play when it comes to a phone - BUT
If there are aspects of the OS that have nothing to do with the radio drivers - why can't Microsoft just update its own software? It doesn't need any "special" control from the carriers. Everyone spouts off about how Apple has some special privilege to push updates. There's nothing special - they create 1 phone - iPhone, which includes radios that will work on almost any band, any country, anywhere in the world. This makes it quite easy to control the updates since you can package everything up to work across any carrier.
Why can't Microsoft do this? I hope they do it with Win10.