OnePlus Beats Google With Four Years of Major OS Updates (arstechnica.com) 14
Android OEMs still don't provide the six years of updates you get with Apple phones, but some manufacturers are trying to close that gap. From a report: OnePlus is adding an extra year to its smartphone update promise and is now offering four years of major OS updates and five years of security updates. Timeline-wise, this plan matches Samsung's, though Samsung offers monthly security updates and OnePlus doesn't. The company is still only promising security updates every other month, so it can't do too much bragging. Android-maker Google -- who you'd think would have the best update plan -- is in a distant third, with only three years of OS updates and five years of security updates.
They might... (Score:1)
Devils in the details (Score:3)
Which models get the 4 years of updates?
I assume this policy is limited to the higher end / more expensive models (as hinted in the article).
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Nice. (Score:2)
Now are they promising any level of quality to these updates, or is it going to be another OnePlus 7 Pro / Android 11 debacle where they release a buggy AF image and then do absolutely nothing to fix any of the bugs for months?
I'd be more thrilled about this if OnePlus software wasn't fucking terrible lately.
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If I remember correctly, that was the point where they moved that particular device from Oxygen OS to the "new rebranded Oxygen OS" which is effectively Oppo's own ColorOS. Which resulted in a lot of compatibility issues, since OnePlus phones weren't made to quite the same standards as Oppo's own.
I still remember breathing a sigh of relief back then because I had OnePlus 6T, which stayed on the last genuine OxygenOS based image and didn't get the update to "ColorOS that is totally Oxygen OS, please ignore t
Well they had to do something.... (Score:1)
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My understanding is that Oppo took over the company some time in last few years. It was always the main actor behind the facade, but there were some corporate politics on the back of it that granted OnePlus significant freedom from its de facto parent company to do what must be done to get into developed markets.
And now that it's done, those were rolled back and integrated back for cost savings.
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That's very country dependent. In some nations OnePlus is a well known brand. In others, Oppo is a well known brand. And in the rest, neither is a well known one.
For example here in Finland, a lot of people have a OnePlus phone. As in ordinary people, not just nerds. And carriers do sell them if you want one.
This is a good thing? (Score:3)
It means their hardware will not evolve, or the codebase will be a hodgepodge.
Yes, it is. (Score:3)
Still better than Lenovo (Score:1)
*yawn* - The desire for OS updates (Score:3)
Security updates are something worth talking about, but honestly who here is excited about an OS update? When did you last see a killer feature get introduced? When was the last time an OS feature made you say "oh man I really wish I had that!".
For me it was around the time Android Honeycomb came out, ... like a decade ago which added multitasking fundamentally changing the way I use my phone.
Fast forward to Android 12 and we have ... greyscale mode. AVIF support (something which is irrelevant to basically 99.9% of people), a scrolling screenshot support, Bold text!!!!!!
Whooop de fucking do.
We used to get excited about OS updates as they allowed our toys to do new things. These days... it's hard to get excited about anything Apple or Google announce, in both hardware and software. It has ceased being life changing.