An anonymous reader writes: Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is adding a car rental service for customers in several cities, to take advantage of the enormous domestic tourism market in China. Users can reserve a car through the Didi app and have it delivered to their door within two hours. The service, which is currently in beta testing in Shanghai, is expected to expand to several more cities in China over the next year. In a statement the company said, “Didi car rental is launched in response to the boom in China’s short-term and tourist car rental market as the population goes through a lifestyle revolution.” In 2015, 2.34 billion cars were rented for domestic tourists in China. That number is expected to more than double, reaching 5.8 billion by 2020.The move comes weeks after Uber announced it was selling its Chinese operation to Didi.

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Yesterday we talked about some of Nexus devices, including 2013’s Nexus 5 not receiving an update, because it has been more than two years since the launch of the phone. But as you may know, this commitment to keeping the devices up to date is even worse when you look at what other Android OEMs are doing. ArsTechnica’s Ron Amadeo has a solution: Google keeps missing the point when it comes to addressing Android’s update situation. It keeps coming up with strategies to make updating “easier” for OEMs, but I don’t think the problem is “ease of updating” — it’s creating any incentive for OEMs to update at all. Google seems to think that its partners will update phones because it’s The Right Thing To Do by their customers and that handing out gold stars will send them scrambling to produce updates for their devices. I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Google actually already tried the “shame” tactic and it didn’t work. When Google-owned Motorola, Moto’s update speed went through the roof. Motorola was achieving near-Nexus-like update speeds on many of its phones and was definitely putting other manufacturers to shame. But the increased update competition never really spurred other OEMs to start competing on update speeds. The bottom line is that Android partners only care about, well, the bottom line — money. These companies already have your money, so updating a device that’s already been sold is a needless expense. There’s also a good argument to be made that updating a device hurts future sales. If your phone isn’t updated, it will start to feel old, so you’re more likely to buy a new phone sooner.

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Source: Slashdot – Hey Google, Want To Fix Android Updates? Hit OEMs Where It Hurts