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That's not the first story like this. It seems like more and more often the QA is done by users who have not signed up for it. Why can't a multibillion company
by jacek 3y ago
That's not the first story like this. It seems like more and more often the QA is done by users who have not signed up for it. Why can't a multibillion company do a proper QA?
- malfist 3y agoEven an unlimited QA budget won't catch everything. Though it is unflattering to have two major issues like this occur so close together.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoWhile true, why would it miss something so glaring? Minor rant but if trillion dollar companies can't get it right then what hope does anybody else have?
- charcircuit 3y agoBecause most test devices are likely constantly factory reset and aren't given the chance to live with multiple user profiles on them for a long period of time where cruft can build up and people can notice that using using external storage is broken.
- saghm 3y agoSure, but this is the past half dozen models of the phone made by the same company who makes the OS. You'd think these would be the easiest possible test cases for them to do up front.
- TillE 3y agoI'm sure they test those to some extent. I assume it's just a fraction of users affected, so it could be something like a service reading third-party app data and crashing due to a bug. The kind of thing that should be caught in code review, because comprehensive testing is next to impossible.
- jeffbee 3y agoThe fact that they have the ability to roll this out to a handful of users, all of whose devices stopped working, and to detect that and not proceed with the rollout is considered success, by them.
- shadowgovt 3y agoAnd, indeed, this rollout generally is done after in-house testing. So something's likely up where folks in the wild have their phones configured in a way Googlers don't.
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- cantours 3y agoYou can only acquire billions of dollars if you cut corners and cheat as much as possible.
- iopq 3y agoThis isn't true, there are a ton of companies that make lots of money while not being pieces of shit AMD is pretty good at having open source drivers, supporting Linux and Wayland, working with Framework to make an upgradable GPU in laptops.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago> This isn't true Are you misinterpreting the previous comment? They didn't say you HAVE to cut corners to make billions, only that you CAN. EDIT: Oops, I missed the "only" in the other comment"
- wizzwizz4 3y ago"You can only X if Y" means "In order to X, Y" also "You have to Y in order to X".
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoShit, I missed the "only" in the comment.
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- bradleyishungry 3y agoamd also was sued and settled for price fixing with nvidia in 2008
- iopq 3y agoThat was ATI execs emailing Nvidia https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-amd-ati-graphics,6311.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-amd-ati-graphics,63...
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- jacquesm 3y agoI wouldn't be surprised if it ends up making them money: people will replace their devices with newer ones. Once the device is sold it no longer has a function for the manufacturer until the next sale happens to the same user. So any update that bricks a percentage of the devices (or makes them effectively unusable) may well extract some more $ from the users.
- radicaldreamer 3y agoStaffing proper QA teams went out of vogue a couple of years ago. Turns out that the way incentives are set up at most tech companies today, nobody gets dinged for shipping major software regressions/bugs while everyone is patted on the back for shipping even completely broken features on time.