This week Samsung has broken the Android mobile market, and not because its mobiles are a revolution, they are undoubtedly the most powerful, but they are within what we could expect. But it has turned the pieces of the board upside down announcing four years of updates for its mobiles, and we wonder if Manzana will react to this ad.
Undoubtedly, this Samsung announcement is one of the most important that we have known in recent years in the Android mobile environment, because it means improving one of the most criticized aspects of Google’s operating system, and the main difference compared to iOS.
Samsung cuts distances
The announcement of the Korean firm in the unpacked where it has presented its Samsung Galaxy S22, it has undoubtedly been one of the most outstanding in recent years. And it is because the brand’s phones will finally close the gap to Apple devices, which have been receiving five updates to iOS in recent years. With this announcement there are still differences, because Apple devices will continue to have more updates, but you have to wonder if this could spur Apple and offer even more updates than it offers now.
And it is that Samsung has not only announced these four Android updates for your high-end mobiles, but also for its entire A range, which has some very cheap models. This for the first time would bring this number of updates to Android phones, even the cheapest ones. Manzana update five times all your mobileseven the cheapest, like the iPhone SE 2. And this is a key factor, which may well be one of the main reasons why one or another phone is chosen.
Does Apple need to react?
Without a doubt, more than a defect of the Cupertino firm, it was an anomaly that mobile phones that competed directly with theirs, and as expensive as these, offered much fewer updates, less than half. This has always been one of the main criticisms that have been leveled at Android mobiles compared to iPhones, and one of the main reasons that many have given for getting hold of a phone from Californians. Therefore, it would not be ruled out that the firm now reacts further increasing support for their phones, taking it beyond those five years.
But the reality is that Apple should not see the need to update its phones for more years, because you also have to think from a practical side. It is true that updating them for only two years as in most Androids is something that hampers the useful life of the phone, but five years is more than enough to extend it for a longer time. It is most likely that Apple will not make a move, because more years of updates would not make much sense and would not contribute more to the devices, that with so many years, it is most likely that they will be replaced by others.
Rather it is Samsung’s announcement that has to be extended to other manufacturers, and above all to all product ranges, not just the most expensive models. So Samsung is more likely to announce a five-year extension of those updates for Apple to do the same wearing them until they were six or seven years old.