[jmercan]

On top of your point, I think people should also understand that smartphones aren't exactly a small purchase for a non-trivial population. Even tech-literate are stuck with the stock ROM if they need to use banking apps, snapchat etc. because of SafetyNet.

Despite getting a lot of crap online, it looks like iPhones actually do better when it comes to shipping security updates to old phones? [1]

I am not sure but if that is really the case, I think I'll switch to one for my next phone.

[1]: https://endoflife.date/iphone

[solarkraft]

Apple does a much better job. My Note 10, released in 2019, is officially close to its EOL (last year of life support, i.e. security fixes) - and it was a big step forward for Samsung to ever even give such guarantees.

The iPhone X, released in 2017, still gets new versions of iOS. Even phones that have long been dropped from new iOS releases still get security fixes for a long, long time.

I hate Apple for some things and even they could probably do better, but they're incredibly far ahead here (now if only the devices were more repairable).