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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like it’s going to be the 7 year commitment. I don’t think they’ll keep it. They’ll find a way to rephrase and reframe and abandon the 7 year updates like they do so many of their announced plans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only security updates after 4 years. I'm betting. We won't see Android 20 on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which actually might be okay.

The new features that I give a shit about have mostly plateaued now. I don't care about new releases. As long as "what I bought keeps working and some cunt next to me on a laptop can't randomly hack my phone" remains in effect I legitimately might not care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Phones just do the same stuff now, so updates don't really matter beyond security. That's a problem for the pixel 8 too.. I've got a 7a and it's not really got anything my 5 didn't have, other than being bigger and heavier. So I'm not even bothered by the 8.