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June 2024 Pixel/Android Update?
Has anyone heard when T-Mobile is going to release the June 2024 update for Pixel devices? There is a gap in security and it seems that T-Mobile is delaying the release on this important update. Goog...
MagentaMelancholy wrote:MagentaMelancholy wrote:It looks like it's finally available without any special procedure, though I still had to manually make it check for the update. 🙄 I don't believe the claim they're not responsible for the delay. Being charitable, I could see them not being directly responsible, but it is due to the contractor/subcontractor they might have hired to develop the carrier-specific patches that need incorporated into the update package. Which is still technically their fault, but it allows them to "play the PR game," by saying they aren't the responsible party. However, I wonder if they used to have an engineering team in-house that used to do these and to cut costs they outsourced it. Nothing would surprise me these days from Magenta's Business Leadership.
Addition: this is a really good thing for U.S. Government employees who use Pixels on T-Mobile because…
U.S. government tells some Pixel users to update their phones in 10 days or stop using them https://www.phonearena.com/news/some-pixel-users-have-10-days-to-upgrade-their-phones_id159709
You can believe whatever you wish but manufacturers gave up on carriers being competent enough to not mess up their devices over a decade ago. Some carriers get their updates before others. This is usually because there is a modem or carrier aggregation change included in the update. T-Mobile's network, which Google Fi uses, is a lot more complicated than AT&T's as an example. Especially after the Sprint merger.
