The biggest problem that Android devices have against Apple devices is their updates. While most manufacturers offer three years of Android updates in its high range we see how Apple is coming to offer up to seven years of updates.
For many Android users, those three years of updates have already fallen short, since they see how a mobile phone that still has the power to last for more years becomes obsolete, and Google who should set an example, it seems that he is not going to give it, since in a recent statement he has reported that three years of updates still deliver a ‘great experience’.
For Google three years of Android updates are enough
In the opinion piece ‘Google is forcing me to throw away a perfectly good phone’ published on VICE by editor Aaron Gordon, he exposes this problem that he and many owners of a Pixel 3, whose last patch arrived a few weeks ago, running out of more Android updates and security patches, when this three-year-old mobile still has technical specifications to last at least a couple more years.
Aaron Gordon says his Pixel 3 still meets his needs, and he doesn’t want to spend the $600 Pixel 6, but that planned obsolescence It’s going to make you get rid of your Pixel 3 so you can buy a new Pixel to keep getting new versions of Android, new Google-exclusive features, and important security updates.
The author of the article contacted google via email to find out why Google had stopped releasing more updates on their Pixel 3, and the response from a Google spokesperson was: “We found that three years of OS and security updates still give users a great experience for their device”.
As we see, for Google three years of updates is to offer a “great experience” on their devices. With the arrival of the Pixel 6, Google extended security updates to five years but has kept Android updates to three years when many of us had hoped that by using its own processor it would also offer five years of updates to new versions of Android for Approach great Apple support.
We hope that Google changes its mind and in the very near future extends the years of Android updates in its new Pixels to offer the new versions of Android for more years, since most users want to receive news and improvements for many years. .
The Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL released in 2019 will be the next to run out of further updates. The term for its updates ends next May, so from that month Google will only release updates for the Pixel 4 onwards.
Via | 9to5Google > Vice
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