Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.

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Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.

My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.

I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.

I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow

Edit: It says they're not mandating it, and I'm pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here