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They started this on a recent gen, maybe 7. Certainly 8.



It hasn't been 7 years yet for either the Pixel 7 or the 8, but I suppose Google never cancels things.


Exactly, there were a lot of similar promises like that before. And then the excuses started. Old phones got the promised updates months after the Android release. Sometimes even after already the next Android version was released.


Sure, but they'll open themselves up to lawsuits if they back out of this. Cancelling a saas product is one thing; cancelling "guaranteed updates" is another.


Can you see the problem? People have Android phones from big manufacturers and not getting updates. If this will change in the future that's great. But now people have phones that don't get updates.




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