• phillaholic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s a phone Google makes, with Software they make, a security vulnerability that Google discovered, which they alerted Google to 90 days before going public, a deadline they set, and I should blame AT&T for being responsible for this situation? Uh huh.

    Meanwhile the carrier has nothing to do with anything iPhone related other than carrier settings.

    • Alonely0 🦀@mastodon.social
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      1 year ago

      @phillaholic carriers have to “approve” updates; Google, Samsung, or whoever is your vendor can’t actually push an update because the carrier must sign it with their key. Was it Google’s fault for the vuln? Yeah. Was it AT&T’s fault for your update to take 1 week longer to roll out to you? Yeah.

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        1 year ago

        You see that as the carrier waiting too long, I see it as Google having 90 days and waiting until the last minute. Regardless, Google allowing a third party to handle is a defective design.

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          1 year ago

          This seems to be a US only issue. I’ve lived in several countries and my Android phone got updates direct from the OEM. Nothing at all to do with the carrier.