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No Monthly Updates Motorola Signature 27. Security Doesn't Matter to Motorola. A Complete Disaster. · eSIM STUDIOS Podcast - Tech News + Reviews

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  you will continually hear me say there is no
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  perfect smartphone and this story right here
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  is a perfect example well let's go over what
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  a perfect smartphone is so a perfect smartphone
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  includes hardware and software combination of
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  both we now got word that the signature 27 is
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  going to get by monthly updates and the wording
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  of their update schedule has some people concerned
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  so unfortunately today we learned that the motorola
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  signature is going to get updated once every
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  two months unlike the google pixel which gets
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  updated monthly unlike the samsung galaxy s26
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  series more specifically s26 ultra Which gets
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  updated monthly hell even one plus when the oxygen
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  OS was in was in Full motion just go back six
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  months ago. They were updating their devices
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  on a monthly basis So the news today that we
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  got the signature is gonna get updated once every
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  two months Kind of scratch in my head like where
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  did this come from? so this is a classic example
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  of what frustrates the hell out of me this this
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  this this gets under my skin i do not understand
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  what the hell these companies are thinking and
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  or doing so every two months what if there is
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  a huge security flaw what if there's a big malware
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  uh discovery that is in the code or indoor kernel
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  what have you you can pick whichever option you
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  want to go with what if there's a major security
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  flaw are we going to have to wait two months
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  to get our signature 2027 updated we're going
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  to have to be sitting on pins and needles wondering
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  if our phone is infected searching for through
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  the play store for malware detection applications
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  i mean this is One of the many reasons why I
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  only use flagship phones is because of these
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  monthly updates. I put security at the very,
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  very top of my list. Yes, even over camera sensors,
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  even over battery life, even over the CPU, the
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  performance, the display. It's number one and
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  it should be for you too because the very last
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  thing you want. is for your phone to have some
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  sort of malware your bank account to show zeros
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  or your google account to be hacked and you get
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  kicked out of your youtube channel you get the
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  point right like that's that's much of a pain
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  in the ass than anything right there right having
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  your daily your personal life intruded upon and
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  that's exactly why i only use flagship phones
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  i get that get updated monthly now this comes
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  as a surprise to me because with the motorola
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  signature the current one the first one i was
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  getting updates monthly now leading up to the
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  android 17 update i did not get a monthly update
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  i believe last month now that was due to motorola
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  packing in the previous month's security patch
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  into the android 17 update that it got but since
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  i've owned the device for what 10 months it's
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  been getting monthly updates for essentially
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  every month so the news coming in today that
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  the signature 27 is going to get updated once
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  every two months just came out of nowhere came
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  out of left field uh and i feel like that's a
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  slap to our face now i've i've jumped on the
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  Motorola train as of recently because I really
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  feel like they are headed in the right direction
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  with the launch of this signature. The original
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  one, I was all on board. It's a fan. It's a badass
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  device. I freaking love that phone, which is
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  why this Signature 27 was so highly anticipated,
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  right? Building upon a badass phone, well, it's
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  probably going to be badass, right? and also
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  with the motorola razor fold the probably the
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  best foldable you can get it's got flagship sensors
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  on it that was getting seven years of updates
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  and monthly security patches so you can see where
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  motorola is going headed in the right direction
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  the direction that i wanted to see them jump
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  into because we've all known motorola is best
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  known for their budget in mid -range phones that
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  Let's face it, your aunt or uncle or grandma
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  or grandpa probably uses it, right? Which they
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  shouldn't. They need monthly updates. Now, going
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  to those budget mid -range Motorola phones, those
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  get updated once every quarter. So once every
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  few months, that'll get a security patch update,
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  which is unacceptable. I have said in the past
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  that I will not use a phone that does not get
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  updated monthly. I'm sure you all have heard
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  me say that before. I go back and forth with
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  this freaking phone. When the Motorola Signature
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  27 leak came out, I thought it was so ugly. I
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  said, ah, damn it. Now I'm wondering if I should
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  get it. Now I'm like, well, yeah, I'm going to
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  get it, right? Because I want to support Motorola
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  in what they're doing. Now I get this news, and
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  I'm like, of course, of course, of course, something
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  has to go, you know, something has to stray off
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  of the track. Like... This is what I don't understand
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  about these tech companies. You can grab the
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  bull by the horns. Motorola, you can grab the
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  US phone market by the horns. You can take a
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  huge chunk out of the market share from Samsung,
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  from Google. You can take these OnePlus users
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  and buyers in the United States now that don't
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  have a OnePlus phone to buy. You can take a large
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  percentage of those users. But with this one...
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  Simple mess up. Just one simple mess up like
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  this where you state you're going to update this
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  once every two months. I guarantee you that will
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  shy people away from buying your phone from this
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  upcoming signature. I don't understand what some
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  of these companies are thinking. And look, I
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  kind of say this jokingly, but I kind of don't.
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  They need to hire and or consult. uh with me
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  like uh i'm up for hire waterola if you want
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  to take my expert opinion i will give it to you
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  i would be standing on a table in the boardroom
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  stomping on the table saying you cannot do bi
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  -monthly updates what the freak are you thinking
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  it's getting me hot just thinking about it like
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  you're so see and this is why i jumped off the
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  nothing train Because I was all on board with
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  what they're doing, the direction they're going,
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  and then they just go off astray. They make bonehead
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  decisions. And I'm like, I'm going to chill out
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  on nothing for a while. I'll see where they go.
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  I'm not saying I'm going to jump off forever.
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  But for the time being, I'm going to not purchase
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  any products and just kind of see where they
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  go. And if they get back on track, I'll jump
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  on board again with Motorola. Am I going to have
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  to jump off of this train I just got on about
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  a year ago? Because it's decisions like these
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  that really have me wondering what the hell y
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  'all are doing. What are y 'all thinking? Who
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  thinks this is a good idea? And how much, when
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  it comes down, Motorola is a company, so their
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  number one goal and or big picture is bottom
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  line, the bottom dollar. They're a company. They're
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  in business. to make money not to satisfy the
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  customer however if you want to sell products
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  you need to have something that's satisfying
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  to the customer so why would motorola choose
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  to update their devices once every two months
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  and not once every month well look i don't have
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  their numbers in front of me i don't have their
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  their their their revenue i don't have what's
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  going out i don't know But the only thing I can
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  think of is maybe it'll save, maybe they're thinking,
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  or maybe the theory behind this is maybe it'll
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  save them a little money, right? I don't know.
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  Maybe if they were going to do monthly updates,
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  it would require a bigger developer team. right
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  like let's just say just throwing a number out
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  there maybe they let's say they have 50 internal
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  developers and let's say and they make a decent
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  salary decent living so let's say if we're going
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  to do monthly updates you know we would have
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  to have 80 developers instead of 50. now carrying
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  30 more developers i don't know what they make
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  probably 200 a year so you can do the math what
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  does that save them couple million a year is
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  it that big of a difference i think they could
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  make up that million dollars by doing monthly
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  updates and getting people on board like me that
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  that feel comfortable buying your product instead
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  of doing bi -monthly updates and now you got
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  people like me and people watching this like
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  whoa whoa falling back to the same old motorola
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  here i don't know if i want to get that phone
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  anymore you see what i'm saying like people that
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  were on the fence it almost looked too good to
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  be true and shame on me i should have known something
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  was up because this looked like it was going
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  to be a perfect phone and now i'm second guessing
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  this so where do we go from here i have no clue
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  now they can Just because that information leaked
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  today that they're going to do bi -monthly updates,
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  a security patch update once every other month,
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  that doesn't mean that when this launches in
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  a few months that, okay, okay, okay, we'll do
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  once a month. That's what I think they need to
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  do to reassure tech enthusiasts that they're
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  really behind. this new Motorola, because when
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  they put out the signature, the original signature
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  in the Motorola Razr Fold about eight to 10 months
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  ago, they were like, this is a new beginning,
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  a new fresh start for flagship Motorola devices.
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  We're not talking about the cheap shit here.
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  We're talking about a new beginning for Motorola
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  in the flagship segment. And they were on a good
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  path, as I mentioned, for the large majority
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  of the year. I had no issues with the update
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  schedule. Again, they were doing it monthly.
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  And then with this announcement, I don't know
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  what they're doing. Now, I honestly believe they
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  need to hire. This does not just go for Motorola.
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  This goes for Motorola, for nothing, for Samsung.
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  These main Android manufacturers, they need to
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  have a common sense. employee somebody that they
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  run these ideas by and are like hey does this
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  make sense to you or give me your thoughts on
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  doing bi -monthly updates one one security patch
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  update every other month instead of every month
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  what are your thoughts and if they hire somebody
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  like me or anybody with half of a brain that
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  knows the tech industry and or the consumer base
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  would tell them that's a stupid idea in fact
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  that will cost you sales now how much sales i
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  have no clue but i can guarantee you it will
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  put a dent in their sales for this upcoming signature
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  because it seems like to me and or the average
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  tech consumer they're falling back to the old
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  motorola where they just don't update their devices
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  right we'll sell your phone but we're never going
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  to update it Well, then what's the point of bringing
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  a flagship device to the United States or to
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  the world? Hell, because that has to be included.
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  When you talk about a flagship phone, as I mentioned
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  at the beginning, you got to have hardware and
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  you have to have the hardware in the software.
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  Security goes hand in hand with the software.
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  I don't take you serious if you don't update
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  your phones every month. I don't want Motorola
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  falling into the old Motorola. Here's what I
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  want you to do. I'm going to add Motorola in
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  this video. So they're going to get notified
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  that I made a video about them in regards to
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  this topic. I want you to leave a comment. Give
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  me your honest feelings. Now, I'm not telling
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  you bash them because they're not doing monthly
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  updates. I honestly want you to give me your
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  honest opinion in Motorola is going to read this.
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  Does this affect you buying this device? Will
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  you second guess buying this? Are you not going
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  to buy this because of the bi -monthly update
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  schedule? Because now give my honest opinion.
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  I'm probably still going to buy it. I hate to
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  say that, but I have a YouTube channel and I
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  want to test it out and show it off. If I did
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  not have a YouTube channel. I think I would have
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  to stick with my laurels with how I operate in
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  having security number one. I would be a hypocrite
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  if I said security is number one for me. And
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  then I still buy a phone that does not get updated
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  monthly. You see what I'm saying? So I'm probably
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  still going to get it, but that's to show it
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  off onto YouTube. If I don't have a YouTube channel,
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  I think I would stick to my guns. I don't think
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  I would get this. So let me know in the comments
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  down below. your feelings are you on the fence
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  about getting this because of this update schedule
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  are you still going to get it are you not going
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  to get it or will you get it if they promise
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  monthly updates or are you going to let it launch
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  here are you going to wait three to four months
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  to see if they update it monthly because there's
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  always that option as well let me just sit back
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  and see what happens and you know you have little
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  patience you wait three to four months and see
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  how many updates they push in in four months
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  so motorola i'm warning you you better get your
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  together or you're gonna mess this up mark my
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  words you're gonna mess this up don't mess this
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  up you have a good chance to grab a large market
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  share from not again not just the world but here
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  in america we're starving for a good device don't
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  tease us with a great device and then on us with
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  no monthly updates because you're kind of spitting
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  in our face yeah you're kind of uh pissing on
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  us and telling it's raining you see what i'm
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  saying like the kind of it's it's not a good
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  look it's just not motorola come on it's this
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  stop playing around this is child's play stop
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  playing around get your together update these
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  devices each and every month like google like
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  samsung and that's about it in this u .s market
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  so because people will run your competitor just
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  for these simple little things y 'all might not
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  think it's important but don't get it twisted
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  we're not fools over here your consumers are
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  not fools security is high up on the list for
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  a lot of people may not be number one like it
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  is for me but Trust me, ask anybody, any tech
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  enthusiast, security is going to be in the top
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  three, regardless of what the other two are.
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  So get your shit together, update these monthly,
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  and I'll see you all on the next one.