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It's probably not a huge priority, given the replacement cadence of most phone users.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/619788/average-smartphon....

If, on average, people are replacing their phone within three years, 5 years or more of support is largely marketing.

I agree with this. 5 years seems like plenty until smartphones sufficiently plateau resulting in longer ownership. I believe this is another case of HN's biases versus the 80-90% that the major players actually build for.

And ironically, I highly doubt the majority of the users here on HN use their devices through their EOL. They just like the idea, philosophically.

I'm still using my iphone 6s plus from 2015. Smartphones sufficiently plateaued for me a long time ago. It's a shame the rest of you fine folks find everything so inefficient ;-)

I'm guessing there's a generational aspect to this as well, and if the devices are the person's only compute device. The assumption on my part is that the younger users are the ones to upgrade quickly as it is upgrading their only compute device. For someone like me, I'll always prefer a desktop/laptop to use for the sheer usability aspect. I just hate the small screen and hunched over posture of using a phablet-like device. That's me and my opinion, and we all like different things.

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