I have previously had to wait three or four days for the OTA to show up on T-Mobile, when it was already available for download from the site.

Since the image has been released, you can just sideload it. It’s not very difficult.

Otherwise, you’ll have to wait. It’s not unusual for it to take a couple of days between images showing up and the OTA getting pushed.

It’s not just shareholders that have to be concerned, it’s end-users too.

I have lived both in the US and in the EU and move back and forth every so often. It’s surreal to see how far the EU lags behind in technology and userfriendly services. The internet feels completely different from the US – and not in a good way.

Lot’s of things that can be done very easily from my computer while in the US are completely impossible or at least extremely limited when living in Europe. Companies are very afraid of regulatory restrictions (rightly or mistakenly) and simply don’t offer the same online products. It feels very backwards. Subjectively, European web services feel like what the internet was like in the US in the early 2000’s. That’s 20 years behind.

I fully understand why the EU wants to regulate online behavior, but the politicians making these decisions don’t have a good understanding of how technology works; and in the interest of making populist policy choices, they regularly throw out the baby with the bath water.

Just to give an example: I lived in Europe during the lockdowns, and my kids weren’t allowed to send their teachers e-mail, because the school was afraid that doing so would violate my kids’ rights. They couldn’t articulate exactly what their worry was, but there was a lot of fear mongering about EU regulations and punative penalties that they’d expose themselves to. The upshot was that once a week, written letters would be exchanged with the teachers. This completely brought all learning to a standstill.

On the other hand, our US school made sure that all teachers were availably by Zoom conference at any time that the kids needed to talk to them. When we told the European school, they said that this was horrible and would certainly never be allowed in any civilized country…