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With regard to previous posts in this thread, here is Google's official (6/17) policy re/ updates to their Pixel and Nexus devices:
Pixel phones get Android version updates for at least 2 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store. After 2 years, we can't guarantee more updates.
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Pixel phones get security updates for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store, or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer. After that, we can't guarantee more updates.
Personally I find even the level of support from Google weak. I believe that the Apple 5c will lose support when IOS 11 is released this fall. The 5c was introduced in 2013, so that is 4 full years of updates. That is the model the Google and Lenovo should shoot for with their flagship phones.
Really? Do you or have you actually used a iPhone 5c on iOS 10.3.2? We have lots in our test bench, and hundreds (maybe close to a thousand) deployed for a specific application we build in house, but trying to use one on iOS 10.3.x is a miserable experience... slow in general, laggy when trying to open or switch applications, and occasional random reboots. Personally, I think Apple should have let the 5c go a year or even two ago when it was still relatively usable on the then current iOS versions.
And Apple has no published guidelines or rules about how long they support a product at all, it is all purely a competitive business decision (show me a verifiable official Apple reference to the contrary with regard mobile iOS based devices), Apple could say that as of iOS 11 no previous devices are supported... they won't, it would be a horrible business decision, but there is nothing in any of their official policies that says they couldn't.
No one really expects 4 years of software updates for a mobile device, the hardware is typically only designed for roughly a 24-36 month life span anyway.