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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad
Subject: Re: Apple publicly apologizes for celebrating its
 destruction of the human experience
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 06:39:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> Chris wrote on Mon, 13 May 2024 06:43:02 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>> That doesn't contradict what I wrote. This is a recently announced change
>> and is the policy only of Samsung (and google) not Android. What will other
>> manufacturers do?
> 
> It was five years prior, where I got my set of free Samsung Galaxy A32-5G
> phones way back in 2020 and they're all still fully updated and have had
> four major Android upgrades and monthly hotfix security updates all along.

Rather than use pointless anecdotes, including my iphone XR from 2019 which
has had 5 full upgrades and is still fully supported, let's look at the
facts shall we?
https://endoflife.date/iphone
Oldest models still supported: 6s/6s Plus
Released: Sep 2015
No. major updates: 6

https://endoflife.date/samsung-mobile
Oldest models still supported: Galaxy A01/A51*
Released: Dec 2018
No. major updates: ?
* S20 models (from 2020) are no longer supported

https://endoflife.date/pixel
Oldest models still supported: Pixel 5a
Released: Aug 2021
No. major updates: 3

Doesn't look so great for Samsung or particularly Google. It's obvious why
they've had to announce better support.