It's a small win for the respective OEMs setting the bar, but important to consider Apple's °minimum° far exceeds the °maximum° of a considerable number of OEMs in the Android Ecosystem.
Further, Google enables this by mandating only ✨2 years✨ of security updates to remain compliant with GMS, and even dropped the requirement in AER mandating longer for knowledge worker devices with Android 11.
So in January I could launch a device running Android 15, give it 8 security updates (90 day cadence, per GMS requirement 2.3), and EoS it with no further commitments, and that'd be a compliant device with a 2 year lifecycle.
It could even pass AER validation.
Food for thought.
#androidenterprise.
For years, iPhone was known as having a longer security support lifetime than Android. Yet Apple never actually committed to a minimum support lifetime at purchase. Thanks to the UK government's PSTI regulation (which I had the pleasure of supporting via multiple testimonies and IoT security standards work - see https://lnkd.in/gH-4qGAR), Apple has finally published a purchase-time commitment - 5 years - two years LESS than Android flagships from Google (Pixel) and Samsung. Apple's 5 year commitment: https://lnkd.in/gNMAkubr. Google's 7-year commitment for devices starting w/ Pixel 8: https://lnkd.in/gJ2VhfxC. Samsung announcement of 7 years support: https://lnkd.in/g9uN3-7r. Consumers deserve to understand the minimum security support lifetimes for their consumer electronics at purchase time, and kudos to the UK government for mandating this transparency. Apple deserves a lot of credit for providing 5+ years of security updates for a long time. But now it's time to acknowledge iOS is no longer offering the best security lifetimes in the smartphone industry. Android is.