If only Google could put this much effort into supporting its own Pixel devices, which stop getting updates to the base OS after just three years.

I promise you, people inside google are equally frustrated with this unjustifiable top-down decision. (am Xoogler)

I know a google dev who says they wouldn't trust the security of an Android phone as far as they could throw it.

I know an apple dev who thinks the same about their product, lol.

Depending on your usecase, GrapheneOS may be of interest.

No support for Pixel 1, Pixel 2 are marked as obsolete, so I'm not sure it's better than Google as far as EOL is concerned.

https://grapheneos.org/releases

Ah, I take it back then. It's been a little while since I looked at it.

>after just three years

The 5S was sold from Apple stores in India in mid 2017. So that's 3 years of updates from end-of-sale and this is an OS update for a 2 year old OS. So two years of support. Less than the Pixel.

When someone buy a 5S in 2017 they surely know already, or should, that it is a cheap buy to last less than a newer model. So 3 years in this case is actually a great deal.

I had a Pixel 1, launched in 2016, and it lost support in 2019. 3 years after start of sale, not end of sale.

It's part of why I went back to Apple.