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Apologies to the sibling posts praising this for a different perspective, but this post goes way too far in the other direction. Yes testing updates is very imp
by magicalist 12y ago
Apologies to the sibling posts praising this for a different perspective, but this post goes way too far in the other direction. Yes testing updates is very important. But by "operators delay firmware updates" do you mean never release updates? By "some of them" "stuff the ROM full of bloatware" do you mean nearly all of them? Telcos also love to write and ship their own OS UIs which are themselves full of shoddy workmanship, then never release updates for many of the phones running them.
Listen, it is a shame the telcos get totally thrown under the bus when there's an entire supply chain full of issues, but I don't see what that has to do with this bug except in the sense that "there are bugs" not caused by the telcos.
- edent 12y agoIt rather depends where you are in the world. UK operators are fairly good at releasing updates - but a lot depends on how many units the carrier sold. In the EU there's a trend away from bloatware. But, again, depends on your country / market.