Also, they stopped updating my Nexus 4 long time ago, something that Apple does not with their devices.
Hence, I am not "succumbing to Google marketing" again. I have now updated to a Moto, which used to be a Google company. Let's see how long it takes to update...
I really don't understand why they so commonly fail to bring best Android devices to markets with most Android penetration - they're practically giving the market share away to Apple's aggressive price cuts lately.
This is why most android high end devices are really tiny market share.
They can't compete with Apple-- AT VOLUME. Apple's supply chain is where they are hugely competitive. This goes for Samsung etc.
So on android, genuinely high end phones are prestige items to make android look good, but the mass of android phones are low end cheap phones that can easily be mass produced.
Apple has been known to buy 10,000 prototype modeling machines and put them into production because they were the only ones on the market that could do a particularly manufacturing step that was needed for that model... google is never going to do that.
In fact, I don't think google has ever made any phones (excluding Motorola) themselves-- all the Pixels are rebrands of other makers devices.
However, it should be mentioned that the pixel was sold in even less countries than the previous generation ..
Google really need to step up its game.
I am not holding my breath though
10 years ago was the original iPhone. How much of a money sink would it have been for Apple to support the original iPhone until now?
What will really kill this is lack of user servicable batteries.
But sure I am going far with 10 years.. and phones would need serviceable batteries to last that long.
- iPhone 4s was supported from iOS 5 to 9.
- iPhone 5 receives iOS 10 updates, but will be out for 11, so iOS 6 to iOS 10.
- iPhone 5s will receive iOS 11. That makes iOS 7 to 11.
Despite that, it's been overwhelmingly the best phone I've had: cheap even unlocked, stable, no bloatware, waterproof.
A Nexus 4 was a 2012 phone with 2GB ram, and 8GB storage (entry model) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4
An iPhone 5 is the comparable year device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5 It had entry specs of only 1GB of RAM, but 16GB of storage. The apps would also be native binaries instead of 'java' apps, meaning less storage was needed.
IMO what killed support on the older Nexus phones was /mostly/ the insufficient entry level storage.
This is provably false. The Nexus 6 plenty of storage space (32GB or 64GB) and does not get Oreo. Google's Nexus policy is to provide security updates for 3 years (or 18 months after the device stops selling, whichever is longer):
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/01/google_eol_for_nexu...
Also, the average Android app size is smaller:
https://sweetpricing.com/blog/2017/02/average-app-file-size/
I can't imagine them putting in development resources when they could just sell you a new phone.
