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A comment on Samsung committing to three generations of Android OS upgrades. Parent comment

Re:Samsung committing to three generations of Android OS upg... by botto on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:42AM (#24200024)
Depends on which upgrades you are concerned about. I agree that having new os versions supported for longer than 3-4 years would be good, but at least it looks like they will be supporting security updates for longer now, 6 years of security upgrades if I'm not mistaken.
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Re:Samsung committing to three generations of Android OS upg... by dogma1138 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:08PM (#24204369)
How will they support security updates for 6 years when Google isn’t supporting that? Google usually deprecates support after 2-3 years. Also some security fixes require new kernels so there’s that.

For Samsung to do that they’ll essentially will have to fork Android.

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Re:Samsung committing to three generations of Android OS upg... by botto on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:16PM (#24204992)
So they are supporting three generations of android version, so if a phone comes out on 8, that means it will receive major upgrades to 10, so that's 3 years there and then Google seem to support 3 more years of security of 10 after it comes out.

I'm aware android 8 is old now, just using it as an example.

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