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Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 by newsbinator on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:01AM (#29495622)
On my iPhone each of those performance improvements requires downloading ~250mb of an app, so I try to wait and stagger them.

Got gmail, drive, translate, maps, and home? That’ll be a gigabyte of “bug fixes and performance improvements” every week or two.

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Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 by smallerfish on Thursday December 09, 2021 @06:00AM (#29496047)
Why not set it to update only over wifi?
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Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 by newsbinator on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:49AM (#29497913)
It would be downloading gigs (tens of gigs?) of useless updates every week. Kills my aging battery, slows down my phone/wifi at inopportune times, etc.

I'm happy to download a quarter gig of gMail updates if they've actually updated something. Abstract "bug fixes and security improvements" doesn't seem like a worthwhile gig of updates every week.

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