Xiaomi has promised four generations of Android updates and five years of security updates with MIUI on the Redmi K60 Extreme Edition.
  • mitram2English
    27·
    10 months ago

    How are these industry-leading policies when Fairphone, a much smaller company, is promising 5 android updates and 8 years of security updates? And it’s not like Fairphone doesn’t have a good track record AFAIK.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Fairphone is a leader in long time support, but it is a very very small and niche brand.

        That does not exempt them from leading the industry, though.

        And, to be fair, they offered this for single model only so far.

        “The Redmi K60 Extreme Edition was launched in China last week. This update promise currently applies to this phone in China.”

        The 2015 Fairphone 2 got a final bugfix update last March, so even without a formal announcement, they managed to achieve that.

        Track record is mixed: I saw people complain that Fairphone is very late with their updates.

        Oh, they’re definitively not perfect but update cycles is also not the sole things Faiphone is about.

              • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                41·
                10 months ago

                for you fairphone leads the industry

                In long-term support of Android: Absolutely.

                and xiaomi, tries to match it.

                No, not even close.

                It looks like we live in different worlds.

                Indeed. I live in reality and you live in a fantasy world where five full Android upgrades and eight years of bugfixes are not leading the industry.