> This likely doesn't matter to someone not running standard Google-supplied AndroidOS, though!
It does a bit, actually. While we get many updates through generic Android, some are vendor patches which stop after support stops.
Re:Back to Android (For the Time Being)
by hnuser123456 on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:18PM
(#33154694)
The pixel 4 is only losing support this month. Pixel 5 is supported til Oct 2023, and 5a til Aug 2024. Pixel 6 gets feature updates til Oct 2024 and security updates til Oct 2026.
Re:Back to Android (For the Time Being)
by scarface74 on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:49PM
(#33155082)
So you realize how bad it is that a phone made by Google introduced in November of 2019 is losing support in 3 years? iOS 16 supports the iPhone 8/iPhone 10 from 2017 and the iPhone 5s from 2013 just got a security update August of this year.
That said, the iPhone 8 is still supported by Apple (probably for the last year), while the Pixel 2, like the Pixels 3, 4, and 5, are no longer supported by Google. This likely doesn't matter to someone not running standard Google-supplied AndroidOS, though!
My use of the closed-source iPhone is not solely based on feature quality, and I've got no illusions that every feature is the best in class.
P.S. Just before clicking the reply button, I decided to do the search myself, curious. The iPhone 8 was a weird model; that was the year they released both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X, because (IMO) they lacked the courage to switch things up in their flagship product so much in one year. (Okay, and maybe also supply issues?) Still, when I DDG'd "pixel 2 iphone 8", I got results[0] that seem to not be the same as yours. The first doesn't really make any determination, the second is mealy-mouthed but seems to give an edge to Pixel 2 based primarily on price ("the Pixel 2 is a better value, starting out at about $50 and £70 cheaper than the iPhone 8" vs "you'll actually get more bang for your buck with the iPhone 8"), and the third, well, it's right in the title: "iPhone 8 vs. Pixel 2: Why Apple Beats Google." So I don't know, I bought an iPhone X that year rather than an iPhone 8, and just replaced that with an iPhone 14 Pro this year after five years of faithful service. But choosing a 2017 phone today, either one, while very clearly a step up from Pinephone for all the of the reasons mentioned in the article, maybe still reflects a but of compromise in service of wanting to run LineageOS. In 2017, was photo quality the same when running LineageOS rather than Google's own camera software? Maybe it was after that they started to apply more and more AI to the photo-taking process, I'm not sure.
0. https://www.techradar.com/news/google-pixel-2-vs-iphone-8 https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/iphone-8-vs-pixel-2-phone-c... https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-8-vs-pixel-2,review-4779...