Android 15 feels like a. scam.
When Samsung announced the Galaxy S24 series almost a year ago, and promised a whopping 7 years of OS updates, I was a little bit jealous of those who’ll get to enjoy this unmatched level of software support. And that’s coming from an iPhone user, which means something given the fact the iPhone has been the gold standard when it comes to reliable software support pretty much since its inception.
However, a few months into 2024, I started noticing that such a generous promise for software support wasn’t magically going to make phones last longer – let alone stay faster over time.
I’ll discuss this in a future story, but in a nutshell, I started noticing some slowdowns in my iPhone 13, which is only three years old at this point, which made me question how would an Android phone hold up when it’s six years old, and it has to run new, demanding features on top of old ones?
Aside from that, Samsung launched the Galaxy A16 with the crazy promise for “6 years of OS updates” – and that’s a budget phone, which shows lag pretty much when you take it out of the box.
And now comes the most recent reason I’m starting to ask myself whether software updates matter as much as we thought they do – Android 15…
As a Pixel (9 Pro Fold) user, I’m lucky to get the latest and “greatest” Android updates basically as soon as Google pushes the update launch button, and that’s pretty cool considering there are phones, which run almost a whole year behind when it comes updates (Hello, Moto).
