Which in turn updates every thing on the phone. MSoft designed it so that every function is an app. No need to update the entire os, but rather just the app. Ive seen updates for Utils and diagnosis tools come in as well as your regular app.
Maybe its something the Android Team needs to look into. Even though their is carrier bastardization, it still allows for real partial updates of internal Android Apps.
You're wrong.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/basics/windows-...
> Maybe its something the Android Team needs to look into.
How Windows Phone updates actually work is exactly the same as how Android updates work: the OS is updated, and these days, the apps (even Google's) are broken out into separate updates. Google was doing this before Microsoft, so Google would not need to learn anything from Microsoft, in this regard.
I am speaking from experience. You are just speaking from things you found on the internet.
And I actually do own two Windows Phones (one is a developer "HTC Mazaa" unit given to me by Microsoft after being one of the winners of a Windows Phone development competition, and the other is a WP8 Lumia) and I develop for Windows Phone. Has Microsoft given you a developer phone lately?
Seriously though, don't presume to know my experience level.
seems like there is a lot of presuming going around. I'll apologize now and say I am sorry to have offended you.
If Windows Phone ever takes off, it would ideally offer the best of both worlds. Differentiation in terms of hardware and apps while core functionality remains the same.
However, all the unbranded parts - Messaging, Dailer, Gallery, Camera, Browser, etc. - don't register as user apps (they also live on /system which is mounted read-only except during OS updates) and need a proper system update to be updated.
I'm eventually hoping that everything can be updated through the Play store, and the only reason to do an OS update will be for kernel updates.