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I’ve got a Pixel 4a… released August 2020, discontinued in Jan 2022 and updates stopped in Aug 2023 Perfectly good phone but Google just abandoned it why would

• Jtsummers 2y ago
  Right, no history of executing on this pinky promise. And Apple has actually done better than 7 years of security updates (which is all Google is promising), they're approaching 7 years of OS support (though not every feature, for instance Apple AI does not work on older phones, which for me is a good thing because I'm tired of LLM nonsense). Someone put this table together: https://iosref.com/ios https://iosref.com/ios Devices sold in 2018 with iOS 12 are now on iOS 18, they've received 7 versions of iOS and all the security updates that come with them. And iOS 18 will get security updates for several more years so a decade of security updates is likely for those devices.
  • youngtaff 2y ago
    Apple even does surprising things on this front… From memory they released a security update the last supported OS on the 5c two years after they stopped supporting it (guess it was a pretty big security hole)
  • microtonal 1y ago
    Right, no history of executing on this pinky promise. This is false. The 4a was released with a promise of three years of OS and security updates, which was exactly what they did. Only newer models have longer update promises.
• nicbou 2y ago
  Wasn't there a recent recall of 4a phones that had their battery life killed by an update? My friend could barely keep his on for an hour. My Pixel 5 also turned into a broken mess in its last year. It was as if I had a completely different phone. I was hoping to keep it for at least two more years but the battery became really bad and the OS became super buggy.