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Google advertises that will provide updates for 3 years for Pixel 3a [1]. I think it should be at least 5 years. [1] https://www.androidcentral.com/pixel-3a-do

• benologist 7y ago
  I think they should be made to provide updates for all Android devices while they continue to sell devices with Android and some timeframe beyond. In both Google's and Apple's case they can easily commit to supporting all devices for as long as they commit to selling devices with these operating systems. Imagine the travesty if Microsoft could turn off Windows updates like this and write off general purpose computers just a few years old or even five years old per Apple. This is a joke, we should not be making exceptions for Google or Apple, their software should not be allowed to render 10s or 100s of millions of competent devices obsolete annually. This is anti-consumer and stupidly-bad for the environment, and we can see from Windows it is entirely optional and we can see from their $100+ billion in savings each, that Google and Apple could do it too.
  • bscphil 7y ago
    I agree 100% for phones sold through the Google Play store. Offer security updates for 100% of their phones indefinitely. Stop the automatic feature updates when the phone becomes slow enough that the new Android version would be a downgrade, but still make it available to users who want to manually upgrade it. The fact that single individuals in their spare time have been doing ROMs for devices that achieve this for years proves that this isn't the maintenance burden it's sometimes made out to be. The device tree stuff means that even closed source modules aren't that bad to deal with these days.