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@[email protected] @[email protected] You're missing a couple dozen Critical/High severity patches and hundreds of Moderate/Low severity patches. You will not get any of those moving to DivestOS or LineageOS. We think it would be harmful for us to continue providing regular legacy extended support releases where people mislead themselves into believing it's fine and they don't really need to listen to us about it. Perhaps this helps you understand why we're trying to get people to stop using these devices.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Current Pixels have 7 years of support from launch rather than 3. Get a Pixel 9 or Pixel 8a, use it for 7 years and then replace it with another new device. You can send back the Pixel 4a to them as part of buying it directly from them they'll pay you around $30 for it despite it being so old because they accept everything from the Pixel 1 with a floor on how low they go for the trade-in value.
Pixels even have longer support than iPhones do now unless Apple ups their game.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Current Pixels have 7 years of support from launch rather than 3. Get a Pixel 9 or Pixel 8a, use it for 7 years and then replace it with another new device. You can send back the Pixel 4a to them as part of buying it directly from them they'll pay you around $30 for it despite it being so old because they accept everything from the Pixel 1 with a floor on how low they go for the trade-in value.
Pixels even have longer proper support than iPhones now unless Apple extends it.