• MaXimus421@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m not convinced. This company has purposely avoided OS updates because it’s profitable to them. It causes people to buy their phones more frequently over a shorter period of time, thus offsetting the cheaper price they offer them at.

    If this is true, I suspect we will see a noticeable increase of price on their phones and much less discounts.

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      2 months ago

      They might deliver on the base promise but the other point is that Motorola is extremely unreliable with regards to the frequency of their updates. The OS update will come a year after a Pixel or Samsung and around the launch of a new version. See the razr 40 series, which has only recently received Android 14 (released October 2023), right before the release of Android 15. You could maybe argue that is to be expected for a smaller player in the market but the same applies to security patches, which are all over the place and often several months out of date. Even if Motorola hasn’t actually abandoned a phone, it can sometimes feel like it for the owner because you just never know when they are going to push something (if ever).

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        2 months ago

        Or the ever classic: launch one version behind the current Android version. Provide security update once a year and then taut that it’s aon OS update.