Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.

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    Are they going to bundle chrome as a system update like apple bundles safari, just so they can say they have longer update cycle?

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      You can disable auto update of chrome. And you can switch your default browser. And you can install a system wide adblocker. And you can get a chill pill.

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      I’m not sure what you mean by that. Chrome is already a system app on most android devices. Be it pixel, Samsung, oneplus, etc.

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        System apps can be updated through Google Play (or any other channel) just fine. The version bundled with the system is just the baseline you can always revert to.

        During a system update, the system apps only get updated if you don’t already have a newer or same version installed (no automatic downgrades).

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          I already know what a system app is and how updates work for them. I was questioning what he meant by having Chrome as a system app and claiming years of OS updates. His comment did not make any sense.

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            They were talking about old iOS getting a system update just to update WebKit/Safari which then generated quite a few news articles about how long Apple supports old phones. Their comment made perfect sense, they just didn’t know how Android works internally.

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              Re-reading the parent comment, I’m not sure if it was sarcasm or ignorance. I guess you should have written this comment to my reply. And the Chrome update thing to that commentor. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

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      It’s not Android 4 where the browser actually had to be updated with a system update

      Also they specifically said OS updates