Apple updates seem to rollout much faster, with fewer impediments from carriers. Why can’t this be the case with Samsung phones after Samsung has tested the update? Why the extra barrier for Android phones?
Apple updates seem to rollout much faster, with fewer impediments from carriers. Why can’t this be the case with Samsung phones after Samsung has tested the update? Why the extra barrier for Android phones?
Just for clarity. The carriers are just testing. They aren’t adding or removing anything. You can tell this because the last beta build became stable, this is usually the case. So the carriers aren’t approving apps after the fact. So it’s not carriers adding and removing anything because one the software packages don’t work like that. That means the carriers would need to build their own updates from source and prior to cranking out a build adjust the packages included inside. Now that’s neither here nor there because it’s not like you get it sooner. But all that time is used to test. Not change builds.
Carriers selectively disable features on Samsung S series phones that they don’t like. For example, I understand that wifi-sharing/wifi hot-spot is actually hobbled on US phones. Some carriers want wifi-calling enable, some want it specifically disabled. I think i ever saw a list of over 100 items that carriers want Samsung to “fix” (like crippling wifi hotspot) before the updated firmware can be released.