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Re:Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates by londons_explore on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:25PM (#37768558)
Google/Apple management could make this happen. All they have to do is have a big bin of phones outside the weekly team all-hands meeting. Everyone must throw their phone in before the meeting. At the end, everyone takes a random phone, resets it, and logs in.

While engineers refuse to do that, the process is still too cumbersome.

Re:Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates by rkagerer on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:20PM (#37773048)
Best suggestion I've heard all week. Maybe it would finally realize my desire to cleanly keep a constantly-synced "hot standby" phone ready for deployment in case my primary one is lost. (Even better both would "just work" so I could grab either one on any day).