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OnePlus 9 Pro review: Teaching us to fear updates
It didn't even take a year for OnePlus to drop the software ball this time
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OnePlus just can't catch a break these days — and it's pretty much the company's own fault. Right on the heels of a praiseworthy update commitment extension that had us excited to increase our review score, news drops that OnePlus has been throttling some of the most popular apps to better manage battery life and heat. After that, the Android 12 based Oxygen OS 12 update landed, and it was not a good time. In short, the days of a scrappy upstart are over, and a more mature OnePlus is stumbling even as it succeeds. Is this just a phase the company has to work through after the Oppo merger, or a sign of something worse?