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Updates themselves are an assumption. I imagine a large percentage of cafe checkout and meeting room booking tablets are never updated once installed. The dist
by flixic 7y ago
Updates themselves are an assumption. I imagine a large percentage of cafe checkout and meeting room booking tablets are never updated once installed.
The distinction here is Appliance vs Computing Platform. And so far many tablets are seen as appliances, not computers.
- samatman 7y agoIf they're iPads, this is unlikely. All one has to do is leave them connected to power and WiFi overnight. It's more likely that the typical cafe checkout iPad is silently updated on a regular basis, after close of business, and the staff don't notice at all; since they're going to be password protected, they just punch in in the morning, as usual.
- Mindwipe 7y agoI doubt it's so much doing updates as it is about support. If they have a vendor app (like Square on a tablet to take payments) and that abandons older OS versions to lower technical debt or for security reasons then at least they can update. On Android you'd sadly find the lack of kernel compatibility with the chipset means that ever happens.