It is pretty bad. Especially the lack of software updates. Is Google going to close the OS? Obviously a lot of handset makers do not have enough expertise to maintain the modified OS and provide updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is the analysis, from Marco.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is pretty bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of Android\u2019s biggest problems is the lack of OS updates after each device is sold, since both the manufacturer and the carrier need to approve each update, and neither of them care much about dumping money into enhancing \u201cold\u201d phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the long-term customer satisfaction issues this causes,1 it\u2019s also a potentially huge security risk: if a serious vulnerability is discovered in a released version of Android and Google issues a patch, vast numbers of phones in the marketplace might stay unpatched for weeks, months, or the rest of their service lifetimes.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case, the problem is in HTC\u2019s code, not Google\u2019s. That\u2019s probably worse: HTC is a hardware company that barely makes software, so they\u2019re unlikely to have any mature process in place to create and deploy security patches quickly, and they\u2019re unlikely to care about it as much as Google would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This must bother Google immensely, and it\u2019s probably one more reason why they want to (and should) \u201cclose\u201d Android, prevent manufacturers and carriers from mucking around with low-level services, and take control of updates and deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the remaining Android customers whose long-term satisfaction hasn\u2019t already been burned by poor battery life. ↩<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google narrowly dodged this fate with a less-severe issue by issuing a server-side fix, but very few vulnerabilities can be fixed that way. ↩<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is pretty bad. Especially the lack of software updates. Is Google going to close the OS? Obviously a lot of handset makers do not have enough expertise to maintain the modified OS and provide updates. Here is the analysis, from Marco.org: This is pretty bad. One of Android\u2019s biggest problems is the lack of… Continue reading HTC Android security issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[226,185,237],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadget","category-it","tag-android","tag-google","tag-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n