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Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.
minus-square@limerod@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglish22•9 months agoAwesome. This should get the gears going for other manufacturers like Samsung unless they want to be left in the dust by Google and fairphone both.
minus-squareaaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoSamsung moving to four years of OS updates, and 5 years of security updates, is what pushed Google to adopt this new policy, as Google only offered 3 years of OS updates beforehand. So Samsung will probably try match Google again.
Awesome. This should get the gears going for other manufacturers like Samsung unless they want to be left in the dust by Google and fairphone both.
Samsung moving to four years of OS updates, and 5 years of security updates, is what pushed Google to adopt this new policy, as Google only offered 3 years of OS updates beforehand. So Samsung will probably try match Google again.
Either way, the consumer wins! I like this