Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates

simple@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.id – 399 points – Google says it’ll support Pixel 8 series with seven years of Android updates
theverge.com

Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.

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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.