25 May 2023 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 6 November 2025In several of our past panel discussions, such as Over-the-Air Updates and Fleet Management at Scale and From Concept to Launch: What It Takes to Build and Ship a New Device, we’ve touched on the scary possibility of bricking devices in the field through an update. The possibility of catastrophic failure drives our release processes, quality enforcement mechanisms, OTA validation efforts, and fleet management capabilities. The costs of a failed update are significant. Depending on the size of your business and scale of the problem, this situation may be …
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