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5 years minimum - 7 years would be competitive with apple.

The thing is - apple has the history / reputation here. Google has promised updates forever with various initiatives, rarely delivers.

Apple doesn't actually promise much here that I know of, but seems to deliver and deliver.

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They offer five years of security updates on the Pixel 6 and eight years of security updates for any chromebook from 2020. Nest and Chromecast devices also all get five plus years of updates. The minimum should be this across all android/chrome OS manufacturers though.

If I buy a pixel 6 today, I'll get updates for 2 years.

On apple, iOS 15.2 is available for a phone that is 8 years old?

Based on past experience, I expect if I bought an iOS device today - I'd have updated for at least 5 years.

Apple was releasing updates for iOS 12 as recently as 2021. That's for phone back from 2013 (!).

If you buy a Pixel 6 today you get OS updates until October 2024 and security updates until October 2026 which is shown on Google support pages. Similar to if you were to buy an iOS device except you'd only have past experience to go off because they won't actually promise you anything.

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