"Sneaky" forced update for Google Pixel 4a
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"Dear customer, to limit the risk of your aging battery catching fire, we are substantially degrading your usable battery capacity..."
But instead, they both try and frame it as an improvement to "battery stability", and then also offer an "appeasement" in the form of a BS coupon. Obviously, you don't offer an appeasement for an improvement, so just call it what it is -- a degradation.
Meanwhile, all these people that are installing LinenageOS, are they turning their phones into personal ticking firebombs?
Is there a safety issue, or not? If there is, then it should be discussed. If there's not, then wtf is all this crippling of everyone's devices about?
But as consumers we have very little leverage to affect change, and as a large corporation, Google apparently has little incentive to be transparent.
Google Pixel 4a old firmware is gone, trapping users on the buggy battery update
Why are we buying your phones again?
What is it about that battery?