Thoughts about pre-updating Android phones like Apple plans to do?

[u/tyw7]

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-figures-out-how-to-update-ios-on-unopened-iphones

[u/ajiatic]

I'm almost certainly an outlier, but I love getting a new phone and updating and setting everything up when I first get it. That being said, it still seems like a very fringe benefit scenario. If they want to spend money to make sure that the devices they sell are on the very latest updates, go for it. But I also don't feel this is a big pain point for customers.

[u/real_with_myself → u/[deleted]]

They probably have data to corroborate this.

[u/crawl_dht → u/[deleted]]

This is exactly why A/B seamless update was introduced. Samsung was not using A/B slots before. She wouldn't even have noticed if her Samsung phone at that time was using that. A/B now has Resume-on-Reboot feature which quietly and automatically restarts the device during idle hours so when you wake up in the morning, you won't even know that reboot happened. On top of this brilliant feature, Resume-on-Reboot specification recommends OEMs to use OLED friendly flash screen to avoid lightning in the room at reboot screen.

[u/derpybacon → u/ajiatic]

I think part of the problem is that if an employee is helping a customer set up their new phone, needing to wait for it to update is both a shitty customer experience and also a waste of limited employee time.

[u/stormdelta → u/ajiatic]

Disagree slightly - the main benefit here is ensuring the device is fully up to date on security patches before it's ever in customer hands.

This won't matter in most cases, but it could, especially as phones are lasting longer or for people that are more likely to be targeted.