| ▲ | o_m an hour ago |
| It's only been 2.5 years since they said that. I'm sure they will walk back on their word before it has been 7 years. |
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| ▲ | morsch an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| The increased update timelines by Google, Samsung and others roughly coincided with EU legislation coming into effect that mandates 5 years of updates after end of sales. We'll see. https://www.heise.de/en/news/From-June-20-EU-gives-smartphon... |
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| ▲ | danudey 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Correction: if the manufacturer chooses to provide updates, and they don't have to, they must continue to make those updates available for five years after end of sales. In other words, manufacturers aren't required to publish updates at all, but if they do provide updates they have to make them available to users for five years after they stop sales. This only stops the case where a manufacturer ships a device and publishes updates for the device, but then takes those updates offline after they stop selling the device (but before 5 years is up). https://www.theandroidportal.com/motorola-android-update-loo... |
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| ▲ | jsnell an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you have any part examples of them committing to a specific support timeline on a product and reneging on it? I can't think of one. |
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| ▲ | danudey 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Google promised their Nexus phones would get new versions of Android for X years then, after selling a bunch of them, just changed their mind. I'm having a hard time googling it since every result that comes up is about Google cancelling Nexus phones entirely way back when, but I remember a lot of Nexus users were kind of PO'ed about it. |
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| ▲ | joshuamorton 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I mean I guess anything is possible, but the Pixel 6 and 7 also are receiving 5+ years of updates, and those sure seem real so far. |
