topic Re: Software Section in Sky Glass

Software Section

ScottishClaymore — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:24:45 GMT

I have an idea , how about if Sky changed how they put software onto TV's & Stream.
They should make software section where you could choose when you install software like a button saying Install Now just like on iPhone so everyone gets update at the sometime so don't get software put on by Sky & rollback if issues occur.

Re: Software Section

MarkGoldsmith — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:34:48 GMT

@ScottishClaymore wrote:
I have an idea , how about if Sky changed how they put software onto TV's & Stream.
They should make software section where you could choose when you install software like a button saying Install Now just like on iPhone so everyone gets update at the sometime so don't get software put on by Sky & rollback if issues occur.

One advantage of the batch rollouts is that it means if issues do occur they only affect a small percentage of users so hopefully Sky can then either rollback the update or work on a fix before it rolls out to a larger group.

One problem with giving people the option to install or not is that it may break more things particularly if software updates are pushed out in preparation for some backend platform changes. In these scenarios you may cause those devices that haven't updated to completely break.

Re: Software Section

ScottishClaymore — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:52:09 GMT

Sky should put a beta out to super users to test software before releasing it to everyone else with all bugs fixed just like how they do it with Apple devices

Re: Software Section

TimmyBGood — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:23:00 GMT

@ScottishClaymore

Worth remembering that the total user base for Sky devices is several orders of magnitude smaller than that for Apple, and use patterns also differ considerably. There's not necessarily any helpful comparison in deployment models (and speaking personally, my one hour of television a day currently spent watching ten year old episodes of 'Elementary' on Prime Video wouldn't be much of a test ; )

Re: Software Section

mrwwt — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:38:19 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@ScottishClaymore

Worth remembering that the total user base for Sky devices is several orders of magnitude smaller than that for Apple, and use patterns also differ considerably.

Think it's also worth adding, Apple's dev/public beta system (as we see now with the current iOS 26 testing cycle) isn't particularly desirable – they've made it so easy to download that users who have absolutely no business installing (or understanding of) beta software are running it on their phones and complaining about inevitable issues.

And especially as Sky's updates (bar maybe 1 or 2 per year) are so incremental, most normal users would struggle to notice what's changed anyway one build to the next.