zlacker

>>skille+(OP)
I think the challenge is: Does your hardware support the updates? Hardware vendors from time to time have the tendency to change the OS in ways that it works nice on brand new hardware but is very sluggish on older hardware - to the point of being unusable.

So if I get an update 6 years in that renders my phone unusable, I haven't gained anything.

I would prefer 7 years of sec updates in that case.

>>KingOf+6x
The pace of hardware improvement has slowed a lot so I’m not concerned about this as much as in the past.

I think that’s one of the main reasons why Google decided to make this commitment.

>>pcurve+4y
I think we are on the verge of one significant new addition, namely specialized AI chips in smartphones, for on-device inference.