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Your mom, dad, wife aunt and neighbor wouldn't even know what the hell you are talking about so being on version X has no particular significance to anyone outside of the tech community.

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Developers care. What use are the new shiny features in Ice Cream Sandwich when I need to make my app compatible with phones on Eclair or Froyo to access a sufficiently broad portion of the Android install base? If developers are wary of developing for Android - especially the latest-and-greatest - that will affect the satisfaction of regular users.

We are turning in circles here.

1. ricw: I'll buy iPhone because Android has no OS upgrade

2. gbog (me): You can root

3. nasmorn: Mom, dad need you to root, annoying

4. methodin: Mom, dad don't care to upgrade OS

5. loire280: But we care.

It reminds me when a bunch of old trolls tried to play with me on usenet decades ago. No thanks.

Developers = You can root Others = It doesnt matter

That pretty much sums it up.

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