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>If in October 2013 you bought a just released Google Nexus 5, you would have had official updates until December 2016. Wait a second are you sure about that?

>If in October 2013 you bought a just released Google Nexus 5, you would have had official updates until December 2016. Wait a second are you sure about that? The last official version released was 6.0.1 which was released in October of 2015. I remember this because the Nexus 5 was the phone that finally sealed the deal for me in leaving the Android ecosystem for good. These "engineers" on the Android team did not QA their software so when I upgraded to 4.4.4, it broke the camera such that every video I recorded had messed up garbled audio. It totally ruined a special eurotrip where I had taken tons of video. I guess it was my mistake for trusting Google enough to update right before the trip started. Anyway seeing that there is a section on Wikipedia devoted to all the hardware/software issues of the Pixel line, I think I made a wise choice to stop wasting my time with this ecosystem. Went to a used iPhone 5S and ended up using that phone for 5 years. Was the best phone I ever owned.

DCKing 5y ago
> Wait a second are you sure about that? I am not, as I didn't own the device (I did own a Nexus 4 around this time). I'm going by Google's available factory images [1]. [0] https://developers.google.com/android/images#hammerhead https://developers.google.com/android/images#hammerhead
- nebula8804 5y ago
  So those seem like backported security updates. This is different from iOS where they receive the full OS system update, including new features (unless a required piece of hardware is missing, ie. Force Touch)
  - DCKing 5y ago
    To be fair to Google and Apple, the iPhone 5S has also only had security updates since 2018. They did add contact tracing features, but so did Google through the Play Store.
    - nebula8804 5y ago
      iPhone 5S started on iOS 7 released on September 20, 2013 and received a full upgrade to every version of iOS up to and including iOS 12 when it was dropped in iOS 13 in 2019. After that happened, Apple went back and backported security fixes to iOS 12 with the latest release in June of 2021. Thats 6 years, 5 days of "full updates" if you consider the release day of iOS 13 to be the end of life support.

DCKing 5y ago

> Wait a second are you sure about that? I am not, as I didn't own the device (I did own a Nexus 4 around this time). I'm going by Google's available factory images [1]. [0] https://developers.google.com/android/images#hammerhead https://developers.google.com/android/images#hammerhead

nebula8804 5y ago
So those seem like backported security updates. This is different from iOS where they receive the full OS system update, including new features (unless a required piece of hardware is missing, ie. Force Touch)
- DCKing 5y ago
  To be fair to Google and Apple, the iPhone 5S has also only had security updates since 2018. They did add contact tracing features, but so did Google through the Play Store.
  - nebula8804 5y ago
    iPhone 5S started on iOS 7 released on September 20, 2013 and received a full upgrade to every version of iOS up to and including iOS 12 when it was dropped in iOS 13 in 2019. After that happened, Apple went back and backported security fixes to iOS 12 with the latest release in June of 2021. Thats 6 years, 5 days of "full updates" if you consider the release day of iOS 13 to be the end of life support.