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Apple has many customers. The person who buys the phone is one customer. Another customer is the cell phone networks, who don't much want to use their airtime
by sbierwagen 5y ago
Apple has many customers.
The person who buys the phone is one customer. Another customer is the cell phone networks, who don't much want to use their airtime to distribute OS patches, which use a lot of bandwidth but are almost entirely invisible to users.
- ev1 5y agoThen perhaps they should make it be able to be sent during off peak hours at a lower bitrate when people are sleeping, they are signed by Apple anyway, so a carrier can distribute them at off-peak from edge nodes closest to the tower, avoiding backhaul, and using wasted spectrum that was not getting use anyway. Rather than, you know, a vulnerable device behind on updates that isn't backupable to iCloud in any way.