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On an LG (on AT&T) and the update is not available.

• mechanical_fish 16y ago
  Contrary to popular belief, sometimes a delay in releasing updates really is a feature. The article is hilarious on this point. "This just in! OS update kills phones, curdles milk, terrifies children! Also, users might be angry that they're not getting it right away!" By the way, I shouldn't need to say this, but the plural of a terrifying anecdote is not data. Every upgrade ever pushed breaks something for someone, and the noise from one failure sounds louder than ten thousand successes. We'll see if this dire emergency still looks as bad three days from now when more reports are in.
  • kooshball 16y ago
    > sometimes a delay in releasing updates really is a feature. absolutely. i would say more companies that have to scale to a lot of users do this. google and facebook certainly both do this
  • narkee 16y ago
    > I shouldn't need to say this, but the plural of a terrifying anecdote is not data I hear this repeated a lot, and I think people parrot it without really understanding what they say. I'm not saying that this particular article is presenting properly sampled data, but in reality, a lot of social sciences collect their data by sampling a population and pulling together a plurality of "anecdotes". That's basically the definition of data. An anecdote _is_ data. Whether or not it's statistically significant depends on the plurality, and sampling procedures, but to call it not "data" is quite unwarranted. If you believe in western medical science, then you had better believe in anecdotes as data, because to this very day, medical journals report single case studies as data and evidence for dissemination across the medical community.