Google, it`s now time to promise five years of Pixel updates
(Android Central)

Samsung and Microsoft have each promised three years of updates. Now it`s time for Google to raise the bar. If you buy a Pixel phone you`re guaranteed three full years of software support — that means updates, When Google announced this, it was unheard of for any Android phone to see that level of longevity and at a time when some phone makers never provided any updates Google used this to stand out from its competition. We thought three years was great because nobody else was offering it. In hindsight, we shouldn`t have looked at it this way. Google controls Android and its update cycle, and in this regard, it has no competition. Google offering only three years of updates for a phone whose software was written by another part of the company is actually ridiculous. Spare me the excuses about why Google can`t do anything more than it is doing today; I`ve heard them all. Things like passing the blame to Qualcomm aren`t going to change my mind. Those same arguments were used ...