OnePlus showed us the truth about Google and Samsung’s 7-year update promise for Android
Google and then Samsung promised seven years of Android updates and seven years of security updates for the Pixel 8 phones and Galaxy S24 series, respectively. These guarantees are unprecedented. The best Android vendors could do before the Pixel 8 was four years of Android updates, and it was Samsung leading the charge, by the way.
While it's a great talking point, especially since it beats Apple's iPhone updates, I explained more than once why the promise of seven years of Android updates is somewhat misleading.
Apple has never guaranteed software updates for any of its iPhone models. But it routinely gives them around five years of updates. It has certainly been better than anything Android vendors were able to muster before last year's promises. And now, we're seeing that Google and Samsung's 7-year guarantee is not something others are keen to copy.
OnePlus is the best example of that. The Chinese vendor will only offer three to four years of Android updates for the newly announced OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R. And OnePlus has a great point about the promises that Google and Samsung make, which is in line with my expectations: The hardware isn't likely to last that long.
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