Hacker News Reader

Comment by aaronbrethorst | Hacker News Reader

Weird, I thought Google made the OS and was responsible for the hardware in the article we were talking about...

Apple made their own SoCs. Google didn't. The pixel 3 used qualcomm snapdragon.

This was Google's decision, though, right? They're a trillion dollar company after all, and they've even released chips before (TPU)

It was, and it is something they've shown they're working on. 6 and the coming 7 (believed) are running on white-labeled Samsung chips

Did you read FTA's title...?

Pixel 6 is a flagship phone from Google, it uses Google's own Tensor SoC, and runs Google's own Android OS. It was released in October 2021, and is guaranteed Android version updates until October 2024. Security updates until October 2026.

Three years of updates of Google's own software on their own hardware is ridiculous and inexcusable. It also shows that it was never about who made the SoC.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705#zippy=%...

>Three years of updates of Google's own software on their own hardware is ridiculous and inexcusable. It also shows that it was never about who made the SoC.

Are you talking about the pixel 3 or pixel 6? The pixel 6 (which uses their own SoC) is getting 5 years of security updates. That's much longer than what the pixel 3 is getting, which confirms my comment.

Pixel 6. Five years of security updates, but only three years of new Android versions. It's a silly and needlessly short time frame for updating their own software on their own hardware, and it's what drives most people to replace their otherwise fully functioning hardware.

So inform some people that a new theme is less important than security patches.

We don't really need to be told here; tell some "normies"!

...and with Tensor they have the chip as well.

But Samsung, Asus, Sony ... don't. Can you imagine the amount of backlash google would get if their own phone and only their own phone got special treatment for android updates? So it sounds "weird" at first, but not after thinking about the consequences.

I don’t understand this comment they already have a different update schedule.

> I don’t understand this comment

Feel free to think about it more.

> they already have a different update schedule.

irrelevant.

Google does not control Android updates for any phones besides theirs.

They work on the upstream Android project,

and then sometimes work with other manufacturers to get updates spliced into whatever custom shitshow version of Android a manufacturer has put together.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com