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Aren't they doing canary release? Seems weird this would not have been detected on a smaller scale before with a good release process.

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Buying 10 computers with different configurations is not hard either. They are just lazy

Canary releases aren't a magical bug free fix. They might be doing it, but the conditions that trigger a problem can be sneaky and can happen outside your canary period, rendering it useless. It's a best effort method.

It depends on how global the issue is.

But yeah I've seen US companies for example only doing their initial releases in the USA only which has zero value for issues that might appear with different localization/language settings for example.

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