danvxz
Swejuggalo
The point is to verify that no unforseen issues is found in real life situations. In a controlled environment, no matter how good it is supposed to emulate real life usage, it's still not tested by real everyday users.
Real users can be everything from experts to noobs that is complete hopeless with phones...
Big serious issues happen even to Apple and Samsung. If they would have caught it earlier with minimal amount of users affected the better it would be.
you know you just described a beta right?
software developers releases stable update to everyone at the same time, including Samsung and apple.
that's why they have betas, to do exactly as you said.
but this is supposed to be a
stable
Betas kick things up a notch though. With experimental additions, knowing things will be half-baked and possible broken.
Stable is when it has passed internal testing and released in a limited manner just incase something slipped by them...
What would you call Samsungs flaw with fingerprintscanners? Or iPhones flaw when users could not answer phonecalls when the screen was off? Seems like pretty serious stuff and despite that it got missed by internal testing and got released as stable. And this is from 2 of the biggest brands...
Would you prefer Sonys method? Release it in regions and living in the wrong location makes you get it last basically every single time...