{"id":166232,"date":"2016-05-26T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166232"},"modified":"2016-05-26T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:45:02","slug":"google-wants-smartphone-makers-to-update-android-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166232-google-wants-smartphone-makers-to-update-android-faster.html","title":{"rendered":"Google wants smartphone makers to update Android faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google wants phone makers and mobile networks to update devices to the latest versions of Android quicker, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-05-25\/google-steps-up-pressure-on-partners-tardy-in-updating-android\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;a mishmash of different smartphones running outdated software lacking the latest security and features&#8221;,\u00a0Google has stepped up\u00a0security updates and workarounds for reducing phone testing requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Android is also establishing a ranking system that could &#8220;shame&#8221; phone makers into better update behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keeping Android fresh and unified is crucial because that\u2019s how Google delivers its money-making search engine and new offerings,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, only 7.5% of Android devices run Marshmallow &#8211; the latest version of the mobile OS.<\/p>\n<p>This is in comparison to Apple&#8217;s iPhones, of which 84% run the latest version of iOS.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/165862-start-a-science-project-with-googles-science-journal.html\">Start a science project with Google\u2019s Science Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/165738-google-knows-what-you-have-done-online.html\">Google knows what you have done online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google wants phone makers and mobile networks to update devices to the latest versions of Android quicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,397,167],"class_list":["post-166232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166234,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166232\/revisions\/166234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}