god dammit, why does everything have to be an apple/android battle? can we not complain about the deficiencies of android without some smug apple fanboys chiming in? yes, apple is better at pushing out software updates than android is. that's not relevant to a discussion on where we can and can't use websockets. now go away.

Just trying to lay the blame where it belongs, on Google and the Android ecosystem. You'd have your websockets if Google did the right thing and enforced updates. Has nothing at all to do with the carriers .