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> “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.” What about the 4th year? It's ludicrous
by jmnicolas 5y ago
> “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.”
What about the 4th year?
It's ludicrous to throw a perfectly functioning thing to buy a new one just because the gazillion dollar company behind it needs to make even more money without regard to the environment (oh but rest assured the next version will be 5% greener ... yeah right).
My Pixel 4 XL will be EOLed at the end of the year (bought it in January 2020) and I'm torn between security and wastefulness.
- all2 5y agoThere are several aftermarket OSs that work on the Pixel 4. LineageOS is one of those. You might consider going that route if you want to sustain your hardware. This makes me wonder if there's a market for "save my phone", where you send your cellphone in and have a new OS installed...
- jmnicolas 5y agoBut are they secure though? AFAIK Google doesn't support the Pixels longer because Qualcom doesn't offer security updates for its chips.
- all2 5y agoDoes that happen at the firmware level or the driver level? It seems Qualcomm devices are pretty actively developed in the Linux kernel? I found Linaro, which claims to be doing work on Qualcomm devices: https://www.linaro.org/blog/highlights-from-linaro-connect-on-qualcomm-technologies-and-open-source-software/ https://www.linaro.org/blog/highlights-from-linaro-connect-o...