How do update "waves" work?

[madapplepi]

I live in California, have a L950 and I still haven't gotten the C.U. Are "waves" hitting devices at random?

 

[xandros9]

From the outside it seems so but basically how "waves" or staged rollouts work is that a limited number of users getting an update at a time rather than all-at-once. You can see this often with Facebook or Google feature rollouts.

Basically the core idea is that if there's an unforeseen issue, not everyone has it and there's less of a mess to clean up.

 

[madapplepi]

Oh, okay that makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for clearing this up for me!