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Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades (mobilesyrup.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] 486@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Samsung's update policy for their lower end models is pretty atrocious. While on paper they offer updates for a couple of years, it you look more closely, you'll notice that the update intervals get larger and larger as time goes on. You might not get important updates for half a year. Sure, still better than not updates at all, but a pretty awful policy for security updates.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Makes sense. I suspect they're selling more of those overall so they like replacing them more often. The only reason they're providing longer support for the S-series is because someone else does too. They have made their own SoC (Exynos) for more than a decade and there wasn't anyone stopping them supporting the models with that SoC for longer. They didn't.