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When Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S25, Google was there in the next seat, proudly joining the leading Android OEM to launch the world’s first AI smartphone. But Google also has its own phone. And the Pixel’s most recent update shows what it’s like for Samsung or any other OEM to catch its unassailable advance.
Google likes to wear two hats, obviously likes it a lot. With Chrome, he plays the roles of the Privacy Guard and the maximum valuable knowledge exploration marketing device in the world. With the search, its record “You Scratch Your Back” with Apple Safari crosses the Android / iPhone ditch of all kinds. And with Android, its double role of development of the operating system and the OEM of the competition is the least taxpayer.
We have seen this in recent months with Android 15. The OS itself and each feature-by-key-feature came first to Pixel. The much larger Samsung user base is still waiting. And now with Android 16’s beta — again first to Pixel, as will be its full release. And we see that same choreography play out each month with critical security updates.
This week, Google released the February Android update per month with a series of higher severity and one that has been actively operated in the wild, likely through legal “spyware” programs that paint a cable connected to Telephonearay there also a critic. Qualcomm update. All this will take place temporarily to the pixels.
Writing through the writing of the February exits made Los pixels will be immediately updated, while other users will have to wait until their OEM is tailored and updated and then moves. Samsung, as an example, will take the whole month to be implemented at its user base, and key corrections can be returned in March. This month’s control was a coherent challenge.
While Pixel and Samsung compete, it is more a Freemy than not. It is not that it is much convenience for Samsung users while waiting for weeks. But the genuine competitor is Apple. Its tight finish on its software and apparatus ecosystem is the reference through which others will be judged. And the truth is that that of all Android OEM, just Google with its pixel can approach.
The update of Android phones in general is a waste. It is opaque for users without clarity at this time when they see updates until their OEM turns off a version. Pixel users are closer to the MOM container and can evaluate more certainly what will happen. For Samsung and others to catch Apple, it will have to resolve. There will have to be a more important way.
Samsung didn’t include details of Android’s February zero-day in its monthly security bulletin, suggesting it’s not in the release. But we have seen urgent patches go out before without being included in the usual documentation. I’d like to see a more joined-up effort to ensure that all users of the OS have the same updates at the same time. Not that I think there’s any chance of this happening anytime soon — if ever.
And that’s why Google’s pixel regarding Google updates is impossible for more than 90% of the Android user base.
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