Pixel 9a vs. iPhone 16e
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So they're asking you to trust that their pinky promise means something this time and to ignore the actual performance of their competitor.
No mention given of course to all the Apple-ecosystem stuff it can’t do either.
I wouldn’t trust Apple to give me a comparison either but I do wonder who these things are targeted at.
I’m not sure most people with an iPhone won’t just buy another iPhone for their next phone and vice versa.
Perfectly good phone but Google just abandoned it why would I ever buy another phone from them again
And Apple has actually done better than 7 years of security updates (which is all Google is promising), they're approaching 7 years of OS support (though not every feature, for instance Apple AI does not work on older phones, which for me is a good thing because I'm tired of LLM nonsense). Someone put this table together:
Devices sold in 2018 with iOS 12 are now on iOS 18, they've received 7 versions of iOS and all the security updates that come with them. And iOS 18 will get security updates for several more years so a decade of security updates is likely for those devices.
From memory they released a security update the last supported OS on the 5c two years after they stopped supporting it (guess it was a pretty big security hole)
This is false. The 4a was released with a promise of three years of OS and security updates, which was exactly what they did. Only newer models have longer update promises.
My Pixel 5 also turned into a broken mess in its last year. It was as if I had a completely different phone. I was hoping to keep it for at least two more years but the battery became really bad and the OS became super buggy.
Does not connect with Google apps