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Michael,

Her Android Phone has a bug which results in fast battery drain. Google dropped support for it and Jelly Bean was the last update - it's know of shameful that they did this as we bought the phone from Google assuming that they would provide updates for it - that's a major complaint about buying from carriers - it takes forever to get updates, that is, if you're lucky enough to get them at all.

Sounds like the same issues I had with my old Moto Droid Bionic. The battery drained quickly, and I couldn't tell whether it was an OS problem or some power-hogging app. I even brought up the display which broke down power usage between the various apps and background processes, but I didn't see anything that helped.

Moreover, the phone has Android Gingerbread on it, and although Ice Cream Sandwich became available less than a year after the release of the phone, I never saw ANY updates to the Android OS. I read on various forums that ICS was going to fix a lot of the problems I saw in my phone, including battery life and the piss-poor LTE performance, but by then I had already lost my patience.

To make a long story short, I made the switch back to iPhone and never looked back.

Seems like the problems with Android that I wrestled with years ago haven't gone away. No support for OS updates across the various platforms and no coherence with respect to features. Software bugs that were supposedly fixed months ago don't show up until it becomes time to replace the phone anyway.

Someone remind me how the PC won vs. Mac back in the 80's and 90's, and why this time with iOS vs. Android, "it's different"?

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