If you are planning to purchase the Moto Z or a Moto G4 smartphone, be prepared to not see security updates rolling out to your phone every month — and in a timely fashion. Ars Technica pointed this out when they reviewed those phones and it turned into a PR disaster for Motorola. Here’s how they explain this fiasco:
Motorola understands that keeping phones up to date with Android security patches is important to our customers. We strive to push security patches as quickly as possible. However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it’s difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices. It is often most efficient for us to bundle security updates in a scheduled Maintenance Release (MR) or OS upgrade. As we previously stated, Moto Z Droid Edition will receive Android Security Bulletins. Moto G4 will also receive them.
#Fail.
If you have an Android smartphone, the lack of monthly updates opens up a huge security hole. Google gets this and is apparently pushing partners who use the Android OS to get patches out quickly. The fact that Motorola is taking this stance is a huge incentive to not buy their phones. Motorola can and should do better. If they cannot, then Google needs to step in and do what Motorola should be doing by default.
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#Fail: Motorola Won’t Roll Out Monthly Security Patches For Android Phones
If you are planning to purchase the Moto Z or a Moto G4 smartphone, be prepared to not see security updates rolling out to your phone every month — and in a timely fashion. Ars Technica pointed this out when they reviewed those phones and it turned into a PR disaster for Motorola. Here’s how they explain this fiasco:
Motorola understands that keeping phones up to date with Android security patches is important to our customers. We strive to push security patches as quickly as possible. However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it’s difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices. It is often most efficient for us to bundle security updates in a scheduled Maintenance Release (MR) or OS upgrade. As we previously stated, Moto Z Droid Edition will receive Android Security Bulletins. Moto G4 will also receive them.
#Fail.
If you have an Android smartphone, the lack of monthly updates opens up a huge security hole. Google gets this and is apparently pushing partners who use the Android OS to get patches out quickly. The fact that Motorola is taking this stance is a huge incentive to not buy their phones. Motorola can and should do better. If they cannot, then Google needs to step in and do what Motorola should be doing by default.
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