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(Owner of Pixel 3a) Yeah, that's a bummer. There's not something else I'd rather own right now, so I'll likely keep running it for a while.

But most other Android phones don't have a long support lifetime either. Heck, there are a lot of new phones you can buy today that have outdated OS versions, and you're not likely to get much in the way of updates either.

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Google's horrible support might turn out to be an opening for Linux. There are a lot of Pixel owners who hate iPhones with a passion that are currently, against all of their instincts and values, considering buying iPhones because they get double or triple the functional life of an Android. They would even switch to something more difficult to use if they both could avoid buying Apple, and either extend the life of their current phone (unlikely at this point, but maybe in the future) or have confidence that the next phone that they buy would last as long as an iPhone.

If they could run Android apps on it with reasonable performance, it would be an easy switch.

> (Owner of Pixel 3a) Yeah, that's a bummer. There's not something else I'd rather own right now, so I'll likely keep running it for a while.

I have the 3a and 4a (non-5G), if you can find a 4a someone is trying to give away on the cheap it's basically a nicer version of the 3a IMHO. It's going to EOL in a year so I wouldn't spend much on it, but if one crosses your path for $100, well...

Indeed my example was just to point out the insanity of 3 years support on your _own_ products not some external third party. Truly a waste.

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