It was also the spec of the iPhone 8, which gets iOS 16 this year and is thus considered fully supported.
Seems reasonable on Google’s part to me.
Except that this article is about Android Go, which is a stripped down version of Android (with special, stripped down Google apps as well). iOS 16 on iPhone 8 would be the full experience (and would run much more smoothly than those 2GB Android Go phones).
Also for reference: They used to make Android phones with 512MB of storage and the capabilities at that point were pretty damn similar to today's phones, just with a bad screen.
A different reference: in 2011 my Xperia Arc S was running happily with 512MB RAM on Android 2.3
The iPhone 4S released in 2011 also had 512MB RAM and got its last security update in 2019
And only got updated to iOS 9. Naturally, the minimum requirements for later version were greater than that.
in 2015 2gigs ram in a phone was premium I think..
I had a cheap one from Xiaomi and was happy with 2gigs