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Even an unlimited QA budget won't catch everything. Though it is unflattering to have two major issues like this occur so close together.


Sure, but this is the past half dozen models of the phone made by the same company who makes the OS. You'd think these would be the easiest possible test cases for them to do up front.


I'm sure they test those to some extent.

I assume it's just a fraction of users affected, so it could be something like a service reading third-party app data and crashing due to a bug. The kind of thing that should be caught in code review, because comprehensive testing is next to impossible.


While true, why would it miss something so glaring?

Minor rant but if trillion dollar companies can't get it right then what hope does anybody else have?


Because most test devices are likely constantly factory reset and aren't given the chance to live with multiple user profiles on them for a long period of time where cruft can build up and people can notice that using using external storage is broken.




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