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Sometimes "upgrades" breaks things for users, and they are reluctant to apply them. Users are trained to not apply upgrades. Ideally you'd need law that manufac
by rmc 12y ago
Sometimes "upgrades" breaks things for users, and they are reluctant to apply them. Users are trained to not apply upgrades. Ideally you'd need law that manufactors not do that.
- digi_owl 12y agoThat is because OEMs lump security fixes in with "value addition". What is required is a multi track maintenance scheme, similar to LTS releases etc.
- higherpurpose 12y agoOh, the updates should definitely be automatic (like Chrome). For one, it would ensure the companies are a lot more careful with what they're sending for update so as to not break millions of devices at once, and second, as you said, it removes the hassle from users having to deal with tens of different devices.