{"id":5905,"date":"2011-12-23T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2011-12-23T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:58:00","slug":"firmware-updates-and-manufactured-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/firmware-updates-and-manufactured-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmware updates and manufactured anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the news that Samsung won&#8217;t be providing an update from Android 2.3 to Android 4.0 for the Galaxy Tab 7 and the Galaxy S is (a) a huge big stick to beat them up &#8211; and if I had bought the Tab on a twenty-four month contract in August I&#8217;d be raising a very big eyebrow; or (b) the perfect example of &#8220;if the hardware is doing what you need it to do, not what you want it to do, then chill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it depends on which will bring in more page views?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the news that Samsung won&#8217;t be providing an update from Android 2.3 to Android 4.0 for the Galaxy Tab 7 and the Galaxy S is (a) a huge big stick to beat them up &#8211; and if I had bought the Tab on a twenty-four month contract in August I&#8217;d be raising a very big eyebrow; or (b) the perfect example of &#8220;if the hardware is doing what you need it to do, not what you want it to do, then chill.&#8221; Maybe it depends on which will bring in more page views?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,111],"tags":[2217,3208,3446,3447],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-web-20","tag-android","tag-galaxy-s","tag-galaxy-tab-samsung","tag-update-ics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}