• brb@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Do any android devices from then still get new Android?

    Oneplus 5 released in 2017 is still getting official LineageOS updates. Oneplus One released in 2014 is also getting updates, albeit unofficial ones.

    And this is just the brand I’m familiar with, there probably are even older phones kept alive by the community. This isn’t possible with Apple’s hostile ecosystem.

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      6 hours ago

      My question wasn’t about Lineage though. OnePlus using lineage officially and supporting it is kind of the exception that proves the rule.

      I’m talking which manufacturers offer a comparable product that is supported for as long?

      Apple gets shit on for this very thing but Google and Samsung and Motorola were the worst offenders in that regard. Samsung users out here with an phone that stopped getting updates a year later shitting on people with 5 generation old iPhones still being updated regularly, my point entirely is that much of the “this company sucks for X reason” in both directions is typically people hating rather than backed by real shit.

      Some stuff is bad, but rarely is any of the hate as bad as people make it out to be. It’s tribalism.

      We hate things more than we like them. It’s a pretty human trait.