I don't think it's a thing of where they would benefit. I am not sure what the issue is to be honest. As a person that, like you all, has deadly with updates, I cannot see a reason why, with the exception of maybe not the bloat, but something att is trying to do (possibly locking the boot, etc) is affecting it.
I agree, and if it were that the carriers did not mes with things, and just be a provider of a service (instead of doing all these dumb tweeks, additions, etc, and allow us to decide what we want on our units from them), maybe, just maybe, the devices would perform better, thus leading to an overall lower return rate?! And also, a speedier firmware process? But that's too much like right. After all, you pay for a service and actually get the service? Heavens forbid!!
I don't know, but they aren't doing anything that can't and isn't going to be done anyhow. It's the customers like us that are suffering, not the root community. I work in it and I know how to do it, it is very easy. But I'm trying to be a customer and recieve what I paid for. If I wanted to tinker, I would go back to testing/beta for the manufacturers.
I just know that I paid for a device with a certain feature set that was advertised and supposed to be there and functional "AT TIME OF PURCHASE"! Not a week later, a month later, a hour later, etc, and that has not been delivered or the case at all. And on such a nice device at that! Is sad really that they have *** Samsungs vision and technology which IMHO is out of their realm.
If they would have left it alone with the radios, just so it would work the way it was intended and placed their branding on it, that would have been enough! It's designed to work on their wavelengths! They didn't have to go in and mess up/with the feature set! I'm tired of the "free but not free"thinking process when it comes to most things and this is no different.
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