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Also to Google for finding majority of them


If only Google could put this much effort into supporting its own Pixel devices, which stop getting updates to the base OS after just three years.


I promise you, people inside google are equally frustrated with this unjustifiable top-down decision. (am Xoogler)


I know a google dev who says they wouldn't trust the security of an Android phone as far as they could throw it.


I know an apple dev who thinks the same about their product, lol.


Depending on your usecase, GrapheneOS may be of interest.


No support for Pixel 1, Pixel 2 are marked as obsolete, so I'm not sure it's better than Google as far as EOL is concerned.

https://grapheneos.org/releases


Ah, I take it back then. It's been a little while since I looked at it.


>after just three years

The 5S was sold from Apple stores in India in mid 2017. So that's 3 years of updates from end-of-sale and this is an OS update for a 2 year old OS. So two years of support. Less than the Pixel.


When someone buy a 5S in 2017 they surely know already, or should, that it is a cheap buy to last less than a newer model. So 3 years in this case is actually a great deal.


I had a Pixel 1, launched in 2016, and it lost support in 2019. 3 years after start of sale, not end of sale.

It's part of why I went back to Apple.




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