Get back to me when an Android phone that was released with Android 15 gets an OTA update from the manufacturer to Android 22.

My experience with the Nokia 7.2 (and a few others) leads me to strongly suspect that these “promises” are nothing more than pinkie swears from everyone short of Google itself.

and super invasive of customer privacy (their privacy claims are “only we will know everything about you” which is creepy AF)

Completely false. If you enable advanced data encryption, your iCloud data is encrypted such that even Apple cannot access it.

Which is why they introduced Legacy Contacts for next of kin… if someone with an iPhone dies, and their relatives want access to the deceased’s data but no-one knows the phone passcode or the iCloud credentials and don’t have legacy access, they can spend hundreds of millions of dollars suing Apple and Apple will be unable to provide access.

As someone who has actually worked on a system like this in another capacity, it really does works as advertised.

I have a Pixel 4a (with Calyx) for a few years already (start of 2021)

2021. That’s just a little over three years ago.

This is why I run with Apple. Because even though their repairability sucks even more than Android, they are built like tanks and they get six to seven years of full OS updates, and not just security patches.

And the security patches continue for another year or two after that.

Nothing else comes close. Sure, the big players in Android have now claimed five years of OS updates, but I was promised Android 13 with my Nokia 7.2, yet I am still on the original Android 11 that the phone came with - Nokia never even released 12, much less 13 for that model.

I will believe these vendors once they are actually pushing Android v.X+5 to a phone that launched with v.X.

Look up that ratio. For any given altitude that ratio is going to be the same whether you make your rice in one of these pots, an expensive Zojirushi, or in a plain pot on the stove.

Technology Connections (YouTube channel) did an examination on rice cookers.

Spoiler: you only need one of the cheapest rice cookers out there to make perfect rice every time, so long as you get the water ratio correct.