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It regularly gets good reviews, though, so while it may not be a selling point to the masses, it's still a good thing for the user experience.
Ars sucks at reporting on this.
It regularly gets good reviews, though, so while it may not be a selling point to the masses, it's still a good thing for the user experience.
Better to report on it than to excuse it or give Moto a pass for old times' sake. I mean, if monthly updating is the only area in which Moto is taking a better-for-us approach to customer service and support, then maybe there's a reason to defend 'em. If not, then why bother?
I hope they do the same thing for every phone they review going forward.
Doesn't translate into sales so it's not that relevant in the grand scheme of things.
The phone will receive the "monthly security patches", not "security patches, monthly". Not sure why that was ever really in doubt even though one website had said so. They have released security patches for their existing flagships, just not monthly.
I really don't get why people get worked up about whether they receive patches for theoretical exploits that have never been used in the wild every 4 weeks or a couple times a year. Unless you spend your days side loading shadey apps and browsing creepy websites on a rooted phone.
So the only thing relevant is... marketing? The top dogs in smartphones are Apple and Samsung. Both have an established reputation that they've built and protect, and market the crap out of. Reputation is a combination of consistent experience that people like, and hype. Just because something like supporting their products properly isn't easily turned into instant sales doesn't mean it doesn't play a role in building strong reputation that builds marketshare. Unless you think they should build on pure hype/marketing?
The x pure is on the may patch, and one of the big selling points was fast updates. Moto has really dropped off the last year or so with updates. If you want updates, don't buy a moto.
This ^^ Almost every OEM fails in the exact same way, if we can call this failing, but no one gets called out for it but Moto and OnePlus.
But sales and marketshare are essentially one in the same. Focus on what the 90% care about rather than the 10%, right?
Well, the 90% tend to care what others think about their smartphone. Perhaps this new attention to security in the media is going to shift whether people care. Don't want to get made fun of for having that phone the reviewers said was "insecure"...
I'm finding the indigannce over Moto's position on monthly updates really pathetic. People are acting like there's a handful of companies out there who have committed to monthly updates. Fact is there are none except for some nexus phones. It takes three months on average for Verizon to approve software. How the hell do you expect Motorola to commit to a monthly update regime given that restriction alone?? Pick on Samsung or any other hardware manufacturer. It's not just Moto and it is absolutely difficult to commit to merging changes to your custom Android branch every damn month. You critics are just ignorant Ars holes.
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I'm finding the indigannce over Moto's position on monthly updates really pathetic. People are acting like there's a handful of companies out there who have committed to monthly updates. Fact is there are none except for some nexus phones. It takes three months on average for Verizon to approve software. How the hell do you expect Motorola to commit to a monthly update regime given that restriction alone?? Pick on Samsung or any other hardware manufacturer. It's not just Moto and it is absolutely difficult to commit to merging changes to your custom Android branch every damn month. You critics are just ignorant Ars holes.
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This really is a whole lotta nothing to the masses people. You know how many times my parents have fretted about not having updates? Umm, that would be zero total. And they've never had anything happen to their phones. It makes for great forum discussion among a couple hundred people and that's about as far as the concern goes. Just like with the silly hand-wringing over carrier bloat. The masses don't care.
OS updates and security patches: buy a Nexus.
Security patches: buy a Nexus or a BlackBerry.
That's pretty much it.