Google recently released the Pixel 8 series smartphones, the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, both with an unheard of seven years of OS and feature updates. However, during the keynote, sources noticed a hole in the company’s promise of seven years of updates, and now the company have refused to discuss it. Google is locking software features behind the Pixel 8 Pro’s paywall, even though the Pixel 8 has the same Google Tensor G3 processor, the same seven-year guarantee, and the same camera. Google revealed that the cost of the cloud infrastructure required to run Video Boost processing is the reason for the exclusivity of certain features.
