In a recent interview at the Milken Institute, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson said some curious words on Google's process of updating Android devices. Stephenson tried to shed light on the actual happenings that take place when you wonder why your phone still isn't updated to the newest Android OS. Should we be blaming the carriers or Google for my device running old software. He had this to say:
Google determines what platform gets the newest releases and when. A lot of times, that's a negotiated arrangement and that's something we work at hard. We know that's important to our customers. That's kind of an ambiguous
