At the end of last year, Samsung announced its intention to extend the timing of software support for their smartphones. According to the new rules, all brand devices released after 2019 will receive not two, but three new Android versions. It sounds great, given that even Google restricts support for its devices by just two years. But Samsung did not plan to be limited to annual updates. Its plans included to extend the release of regular security updates up to 4 years. Extended, extended, but it turned out somehow very strange. Let's wonder what's wrong.
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Before we proceed to the disorders of the new Samsung support policy, let's remember how ordinary manufacturers update their smartphones:
- The first two years is the annual Android updates and monthly security updates that should turn out at least 12;
- The third year is only quarterly security updates, the total number of which is no more than 4 for the year.
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Therefore, when Samsung announced that security updates for her smartphones, which shone the extension of support, will be published for 4 years, and everyone has arisen. It consisted in the timing of regular patches aimed at correcting errors.
Of course, no one was waiting for Samsung to produce them monthly throughout the service life. However, many people hoped that during the third year they would leave every month, but on the fourth of Samsung will turn on the quarterly cycle. It looked logical and fully justified. However, Koreans had their own opinion on this.
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As it turned out, during the third year, Samsung will produce security updates for their smartphones, as before, once a quarter, and on the fourth - try to guess yourself - every six months. That is, during the final year of software support, the corporate devices of the Korean company will receive only 2 security updates. Not so much, you will agree?
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What is happening? And the fact that Samsung very famously circled us all around the finger. Of course, the company needs to pay tribute to the third Android update, which they gathered to give up their users. It is really expensive. Well, it would have stated three years of support, because the fourth year looks like a real mockery. Just two patch? Seriously? But who need them at all?
Obviously, the efforts to support for the fourth year Samsung will attach a minimum. But how beautifully sounds numeral 4 compared with 2 or at least 3 years, which their users offer other manufacturers. But if they cast support already in the second year, it is at least honest. And four years, of which two turn out to be somehow cropped, it is no longer Comilfo.
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Security updates are good for its regularity. They correct a large number of bugs and vulnerabilities in smartphones firmware, increasing their level of secureness. But, if they come out once a quarter or every six months, then their value is lost, simply because Google has the so-called Google Play system updates. They contain corrections of critical boys, correcting what they have not corrected security patches. And since they are, the point in the fourth year of support practically does not remain.