[maxerickson]

How did you go from 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., which is a quote from Motorola, to Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates.?

Keeping up with the monthly updates would likely be preferable, but batching them is still a long way off from how you've characterized it.

[post_break]

Because anyone who has watched Motorola after their acquisition from Lenovo knows they will stop updating phones very quickly. In under a year in some cases.

[cptskippy]

While I agree with you, it's still just speculation.

[unethical_ban]

Lenovo is a $56B company, and they are claiming it's infeasible to test a dozen phones against several versions of Android.

[maxerickson]

Yes, please feel free to take them to task over that.

But while you are doing so, please avoid misrepresentations as egregious as Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates. (and less egregious ones too).

[brazzledazzle]

It might be more charitable to assume their intent wasn't to mischaracterize.

[maxerickson]

That's why I used the word mischaracterize. It doesn't really examine intent, it points at the result.

For instance, you can mischaracterize something by not understanding it or by not being informed at all about it or by intentionally lying.

[brazzledazzle]

Fair point. The tone I perceived definitely seemed accusatory. It seems I'm the one that should have been more charitable. Sorry about that.

[klackerz]

Well that phrasing is misleading I admit. But what would the reaction be if Microsoft started to have security updates every three months or so for Windows.