News Google Pixel phones' seamless updates are finally shedding their snail-like pace

[AC News]

Google’s first Pixel phones were ahead of their time with seamless updates, but they took forever to install them. Now, Google is finally speeding things up.

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[mustang7757]

Seamless updates sounds good but they need to download the update much faster , when there is one available it takes 1.5 to 2 hours to update where as a Samsung has an update available I know 10 minutes or under it's done .

 

[zorak950]

That's the beauty of the A/B partition strategy, though: you keep using your device while it updates, then reboot when it's done. Your actual downtime is a minute or less.
Making it faster is good and all, but the whole point is that the speed doesn't matter: even if the install takes over an hour, it's happening in the background so who cares? You're still offline for way less time than with a phone that makes you wait at a loading screen while it updates.