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Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9647496
Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence
Despite Sundar’s leadership, do you think that extending update support to 7 years took no innovation? The Android team has been doing major system reworks to make this practical. The Tensor team has been working to do the same on the hardware side. Samsung is likely reusing firmware and software from that work given that the hardware is shares a lot of Samsung IPs. Prior to these developments Samsung was not interested in providing anywhere close to this length of support.
Android is in the best place it’s ever been since its release. It’s on more things than ever and we have the kind of update support we used to only dream about in 2008. And we have devices with unlockable and rekockable bootloaders. 🤯
Samsung committed to seven years before Google and look at the length of support Apple were offering. Maybe we have different definitions of innovation.
Maybe I’m out of the loop when did Samsung commit? Isn’t the article about it happening now?
Sorry, I remembered incorrectly and thus my information was wrong. They offered four years back when Google was only offering two
https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-phone-seven-years-security-updates/
They didn’t, Google are the first to do three years of OS updates and security patches with the Pixel 2 and extended that to the first gen Pixel. Samsung were doing two OS updates until they promised they would do 3 OS updates at the Note20 launch and extended it to the S10 and other models. You are correct that they upgraded that to four with the S21 before Google made the jump from 3 to 7.