Pixels 8 and later get 7 years. Not as good as Apple but reasonable.

Pixels 6-7 got 5 years. I'd say that's on the low end of okay.

For "lol" you have to go back to 2021 or earlier. Or look at some of Motorola's offerings.

I left Android at the Nexus 5 after years of buying every Nexus phone. The deal breaker: Despite staying on official ROMs, Google broke audio in video recording such that all my vacation videos with a special friend ended up with garbled audio. My mistake for trusting Google updates right before my trip. You'd think for their reference phone they would test a primary feature like video recording for regressions? Apparently not.

My friend at the time had an iPhone 5, I noticed her phone worked without issue while my Nexus 5 was constantly draining its battery.

I finally bought an Apple device and 11 years later never looked back. Finally said goodbye to Windows & Linux as well. I presume this is how many Apple conversions happen.

Back when Pixel came out I used to argue with a friend because it supposedly had a better camera: I'd always point out that the Pixel phone has its own Wikipedia article describing all its issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_(1st_generation)#Issues

Its been like 12 years since the G1? They are still playing games till this day. Give it a rest already.

Remember when the CEO of Google testified before Congress that if they were allowed to purchase DoubleClick and enter the advertising market that they wouldn't link your use of Google services with your advertising profile?

I'll believe Google's promises after they keep them, not before.

> Pixels 8 and later get 7 years. Not as good as Apple but reasonable.

I had 3 pixels over the years. all 3 died after 1-2 years tops. And repairability is zero. absolutely would not recommend if you're a digital nomad. meanwhile my iphone 14 is still going strong. Battery life has gone down but still acceptable.

> Pixels 8 and later get 7 years.

looks like Pixel 8 was released October 2023, so not even 2 years ago. not sure I'd put much stock in what Google says about support after <30% of the stated time.

> Pixels 6-7 got 5 years.

looks like Pixel 6 was released October 2021, so not even 4 years ago.

From first sale, right? The interesting date to me is years of support from last sale—when a company would still sell you a device as new.

So, up until 3-4 years ago (around the time of iPhone 13), you couldn't buy a Pixel phone with more than 3 years of security updates? Lol indeed.

> Pixels 8 and later get 7 years. Not as good as Apple but reasonable

7 to 10 years is a 50% increase. Diminishing marginal returns dents that. But it still represents huge quantities of metal and resources.

Pixel 4a… announced Aug 2020… EOL’d Jan 2022… updates stopped Aug / Nov 2023

Android is abandonware IMV

> Pixels 8 and later get 7 years. Not as good as Apple but reasonable.

Pixel 8 gets 7 years of OS updates, not security updates. That's actually more than the 5-6 years that Apple commits to.

I'm reading this now on a Pixel 2XL. It runs reasonably well, though I've currently got a few too many apps running in the background crapping it up. It's asinine that Google dropped support for this model so quickly, and I really have no faith in them at all anymore. 7 years is what it should have always been.

The phones and the policies haven't been out long enough to see if Google actually releases updates at five years. The Pixel 6 will drop out of support in a year, so we'll see!