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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by tempnow987 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:26PM (#30075784)
If I buy a pixel 6 today, I'll get updates for 2 years.

On apple, iOS 15.2 is available for a phone that is 8 years old?

Based on past experience, I expect if I bought an iOS device today - I'd have updated for at least 5 years.

Apple was releasing updates for iOS 12 as recently as 2021. That's for phone back from 2013 (!).

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by BakeInBeens on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:15PM (#30078142)
If you buy a Pixel 6 today you get OS updates until October 2024 and security updates until October 2026 which is shown on Google support pages. Similar to if you were to buy an iOS device except you'd only have past experience to go off because they won't actually promise you anything.
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