Apple does basically the same thing. You buy an older iPhone like the XR and you get years of support off. Hell they cutoff support for the 6th gen iPod Touch l

Apple does basically the same thing. You buy an older iPhone like the XR and you get years of support off. Hell they cutoff support for the 6th gen iPod Touch less than 6 months after they stopped selling it. They also make zero support promises for their products or monthly updates. While you might get 7 years like an iPhone 6S, it could also be 3 or even 2 like the original iPad. It's completely at their whims. For a while Mac support seemed relatively stable but Big Sur dropped a ton of models. Samsung's support pledge isn't perfect but it is an improvement that will hopefully lead to other Android OEMs stepping up their game.