system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why do updates for computers come straight from Microsoft or Apple, yet I have to wait months for cell phone updates to come from Google/Apple and go through my service provider?

I just had to wait 3 fucking weeks for an important security update for Android make it through AT&T, why is this allowed?
gpt
Updates from Apple never go through your service provider. Apple controls the software and hardware of the iphones. Service providers are not allowed to make any changes to ios so you get your updates directly and immediately when they are out.

Google, on the other hand, allows service providers to add their own programs and applications to android. You need to wait for updates because your service provider also first needs to update any additional programming they have added before they can role out the complete update.