Motorola, Verizon and OTA updates

One thing that really confused me, it's why Motorola and all the other phone manufacturers Android I can think, everything will depend on the OTA updates?  They are TERRIBLY slow to be implemented.

Apple, as you know, connects to iTunes to update its firmware.  This approach is almost as fast as it can possibly get.  You don't have to wait on the carriers to approve it.

Why can not Motorola provide certain types of free software on their site, all you have to do is to download and install on your computer, connect your phone to it and let it update?

After doing updates both ways on different smartphones, download and installation is not too different anyway. But even with apple, the carrier must approve the update, because they must make sure it works properly on their network.

I think that if you download the Motorola update software application, it is able to download software updates and the flash on your phone, but you wouldn't really get it any faster than you would with the OTA

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