Pixel 4a is built on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G (and 4a 5G on a 765G). It is Qualcomm’s policy that consumer chips like these get 3 years of support for baseban

Pixel 4a is built on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G (and 4a 5G on a 765G). It is Qualcomm’s policy that consumer chips like these get 3 years of support for baseband, driver, etc. updates. Mind you, I’m not saying we shouldn’t complain to Google if we want them to transmit some backpressure on Qualcomm, just that basically the whole ecosystem is like this due to depending on a single chipmaker. (In other news, Pixel 6 and later get three years of version updates and five of security patches; Pixel 8 and later get seven years of both. As far as I know, this us some sort of Google-specific sweetheart deal—other phones with Qualcomm consumer chips don’t get the same treatment.)