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And that's a minimum guaranty. We have yet to see if they truly stop or keep going.

by Ph0X 10y ago

kuschku 10y ago
No? We've seen Nexus devices being dropped after only 16 months of support.
- guelo 10y ago
  I don't believe that's true. The shortest update life span was the 2011 Galaxy Nexus for 20 months. Ever since then the models have been updated for 3 years or more.
  - kuschku 10y ago
    No? They got 2.5 years of security updates after release (and not 2 years of security updates after sale, as EU law demands), and they certainly only get 18 months of feature updates after release. The Nexus 5 was already dropped in October 2015, having been released in October 2013. Same with the Nexus 6 (it was dropped yesterday, being 2 years old). It’s always been 18-24 months of updates max, and only if you buy on release day. https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_devices https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_device...
    - dmix 10y ago
      That page you linked to says otherwise > Nexus devices get security patches for at least 3 years from when the device first became available, or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer. Google is still releasing security patches for Nexus 5 http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/01/august-security-patches-rolling-august-1st-august-5th-levels/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/01/august-security-patc... The most recent one for Nexus 5 aka Hammerhead was this month: M4B30X, Oct 2016 https://developers.google.com/android/images https://developers.google.com/android/images You're mistaking the major version releases (6.x.x vs 7 x.x) with security patches, they are not promising major updates here only security patches for 6.x.x.
      - kuschku 10y ago
        > or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer. Which is illegal, EU law demands 24 months from when it was lost sold anyway. > they are not promising major updates That’s another issue, many security features are only added in major updates (sandboxing Mediaserver, etc). So you only get hotfixes, and not long-term fixes.

And that's a minimum guaranty. We have yet to see if they truly stop or keep going.

by Ph0X 10y ago

And that's a minimum guaranty. We have yet to see if they truly stop or keep going.

kuschku 10y ago

No? We've seen Nexus devices being dropped after only 16 months of support.

guelo 10y ago
I don't believe that's true. The shortest update life span was the 2011 Galaxy Nexus for 20 months. Ever since then the models have been updated for 3 years or more.
- kuschku 10y ago
  No? They got 2.5 years of security updates after release (and not 2 years of security updates after sale, as EU law demands), and they certainly only get 18 months of feature updates after release. The Nexus 5 was already dropped in October 2015, having been released in October 2013. Same with the Nexus 6 (it was dropped yesterday, being 2 years old). It’s always been 18-24 months of updates max, and only if you buy on release day. https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_devices https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_device...
  - dmix 10y ago
    That page you linked to says otherwise > Nexus devices get security patches for at least 3 years from when the device first became available, or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer. Google is still releasing security patches for Nexus 5 http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/01/august-security-patches-rolling-august-1st-august-5th-levels/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/01/august-security-patc... The most recent one for Nexus 5 aka Hammerhead was this month: M4B30X, Oct 2016 https://developers.google.com/android/images https://developers.google.com/android/images You're mistaking the major version releases (6.x.x vs 7 x.x) with security patches, they are not promising major updates here only security patches for 6.x.x.
    - kuschku 10y ago
      > or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer. Which is illegal, EU law demands 24 months from when it was lost sold anyway. > they are not promising major updates That’s another issue, many security features are only added in major updates (sandboxing Mediaserver, etc). So you only get hotfixes, and not long-term fixes.