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Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.
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inb4 google cancels pixels
Usually this is what they say before cancelling it 10 months later
Awesome. This should get the gears going for other manufacturers like Samsung unless they want to be left in the dust by Google and fairphone both.
IMO, the biggest headlines in the launch. 7 years is crazy timeline to support. But the phones have matured so much that it makes sense people would want to keep the phone for longer period of time
I like to think this is because all the regulation regarding parts and support coming from EU. Right to repair finally got some spotlight and we’re starting to see the results. Now just give me a phone with a replaceable battery and I might actually use it for 5 years. Oh, and with a headphone jack.
It is not, Fairphone already does this.
Still crazy I would say for Google. Their market size is lot larger, and they release new phone line-ups every year.
7 years honestly seems excessive but this is a good trend I suppose
How does it differ from buying a laptop at this point? The price is the same, the capabilities are similar, the form factor can be the same (Fold or tablets in general).
As long as the hardware can keep up with the software, and the manufacturer keeps building products, why should they ever end support? (a la Windows)
I don’t really know all the differences but phone OS upgrades need firmware updates as well, which will delay a lot of OS releases and cause old hardware to no longer have security support. I don’t think the OS layer is completely separate like it is with desktop computers.
I can understand that part, but not why providing such update timeline would be “excessive” or “crazy”, if there are ways to achieve it.
Hopefully Google doesn’t end up cancelling Pixels before the seven are up!
I wouldn’t have any worry about that lol
Haha. I was just joking at Google’s expense.
Especially when you consider the lifespan of the battery. I’d like to see battery replacements get easier as well
As a guy with a OnePlus 7 Pro that has been waiting, I am waiting to see how reparable it is, and this might be the one I have been waiting for, I mean, I have been eying pixel since I got the OP7pro
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro will be supported with seven years of “OS, security, and Feature Drop updates,” meaning buyers should be able to use them until 2030 before their software starts to become outdated.
It’s also a longer support period than what basically all of Google’s mainstream Android competitors are currently offering.
Google has the freedom to offer this longer support period thanks to using its own Tensor processor in the Pixel 8 series, which gives it more control over the hardware that’s gone into the phone compared to most of its Android competitors.
Apple, another manufacturer that also produces its own processors for its phones, offers similarly lengthy support periods.
But that assumes Google is still using the same annual release cadence for Android seven years from now, even before we get into its somewhat flaky history of ongoing support for other services and initiatives.
However, Fairphone has no plans to sell its fifth-generation device in the US and is also only committed to releasing five major Android OS updates.
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I love my pixel 5, but this is very appealing.
Are they going to bundle chrome as a system update like apple bundles safari, just so they can say they have longer update cycle?
- dingleberry ( @dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ) English15•1 year ago
You can disable auto update of chrome. And you can switch your default browser. And you can install a system wide adblocker. And you can get a chill pill.
I’m not sure what you mean by that. Chrome is already a system app on most android devices. Be it pixel, Samsung, oneplus, etc.
System apps can be updated through Google Play (or any other channel) just fine. The version bundled with the system is just the baseline you can always revert to.
During a system update, the system apps only get updated if you don’t already have a newer or same version installed (no automatic downgrades).
I already know what a system app is and how updates work for them. I was questioning what he meant by having Chrome as a system app and claiming years of OS updates. His comment did not make any sense.
They were talking about old iOS getting a system update just to update WebKit/Safari which then generated quite a few news articles about how long Apple supports old phones. Their comment made perfect sense, they just didn’t know how Android works internally.
Re-reading the parent comment, I’m not sure if it was sarcasm or ignorance. I guess you should have written this comment to my reply. And the Chrome update thing to that commentor. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
Why are you like this?