I'll believe this in 7 years.
Just waiting for the EU mandate for replaceable batteries to kick in and we are golden
Start of an era for Android hopefully, especially with EU's replaceable batteries law coming up. This is what OEMs should copy and not dumb shit done by Apple.
Annnnnnnnnnnd Grapheneos....
Awesome. This should get the gears going for other manufacturers like Samsung unless they want to be left in the dust by Google and fairphone both.
inb4 google cancels pixels
Meanwhile every other phone is on some old version of Android. The fuck is going on where every single Android phone can't just upgrade to the latest? Why does the phone maker have to be the one to support the OS? It's like relying on fucking Dell to update Windows on a Dell desktop, for example. Makes no goddamn sense. I should be able to download any new version of Android for my devices and install them.

The only alternative is fucking crApple, and I won't go there. Fuck that pile of trash that you have to beg crApple to do any simple thing or have any simple customization. They control all their own phones and upgrade them, which solves that problem, but I want phones and tablets to work like a real computer. Is that so goddamn hard?
IMO, the biggest headlines in the launch. 7 years is crazy timeline to support. But the phones have matured so much that it makes sense people would want to keep the phone for longer period of time
This will be a great phone to flash custom roms or even Linux.
I had actually considered switching out of Samsung for my next phone. Looks like I might be going with Pixel. Still gonna be expensive, but if they follow through on this, might be worth it. Just need to see how well it handles some things.
7 years honestly seems excessive but this is a good trend I suppose
Lol, I don't believe Google for a second on this kind of shit
This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro will be supported with seven years of “OS, security, and Feature Drop updates,” meaning buyers should be able to use them until 2030 before their software starts to become outdated.

It’s also a longer support period than what basically all of Google’s mainstream Android competitors are currently offering.

Google has the freedom to offer this longer support period thanks to using its own Tensor processor in the Pixel 8 series, which gives it more control over the hardware that’s gone into the phone compared to most of its Android competitors.

Apple, another manufacturer that also produces its own processors for its phones, offers similarly lengthy support periods.

But that assumes Google is still using the same annual release cadence for Android seven years from now, even before we get into its somewhat flaky history of ongoing support for other services and initiatives.

However, Fairphone has no plans to sell its fifth-generation device in the US and is also only committed to releasing five major Android OS updates.

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As a guy with a OnePlus 7 Pro that has been waiting, I am waiting to see how reparable it is, and this might be the one I have been waiting for, I mean, I have been eying pixel since I got the OP7pro
I'm guessing this is the result of Google using their own hardware.

Because, if they're using chips from other manufacturers, those chip manufacturers may not provide firmware updates or driver updates for extended periods

Also, it was very much needed. I hope they extend the support period for pixel 7 too
I love my pixel 5, but this is very appealing.
Please release the phones for my country 😭
Are they going to bundle chrome as a system update like apple bundles safari, just so they can say they have longer update cycle?

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