I have a Pixel 4a (with Calyx) for a few years already (start of 2021)
- That’s just a little over three years ago.
This is why I run with Apple. Because even though their repairability sucks even more than Android, they are built like tanks and they get six to seven years of full OS updates, and not just security patches.
And the security patches continue for another year or two after that.
Nothing else comes close. Sure, the big players in Android have now claimed five years of OS updates, but I was promised Android 13 with my Nokia 7.2, yet I am still on the original Android 11 that the phone came with - Nokia never even released 12, much less 13 for that model.
I will believe these vendors once they are actually pushing Android v.X+5 to a phone that launched with v.X.
Completely false. If you enable advanced data encryption, your iCloud data is encrypted such that even Apple cannot access it.
Which is why they introduced Legacy Contacts for next of kin… if someone with an iPhone dies, and their relatives want access to the deceased’s data but no-one knows the phone passcode or the iCloud credentials and don’t have legacy access, they can spend hundreds of millions of dollars suing Apple and Apple will be unable to provide access.
As someone who has actually worked on a system like this in another capacity, it really does works as advertised.