Samsung is extending its seven 12 months promise to a different product

It’s develop into more and more obvious that software program updates are vital for conserving your computer systems, telephones, and tablets protected on the net. For his or her half, Google and Samsung have each gotten extra proactive concerning cell updates. A number of flagship telephones now provide seven years of OS and safety updates. However one product class that tends to get uncared for? Sensible TVs. Fortunately, Samsung is lastly doing one thing about it.

New stories from Enterprise Insider and KED (through ArsTechnica) have been the primary to interrupt the information that Samsung has introduced it’s extending its seven-year Android replace coverage to its Tizen OS-powered TV units. As with its cell efforts, this pledge contains not solely vital safety fixes but additionally basic software program updates.

To be honest, Samsung isn’t the primary TV producer to commit to higher replace practices. In actual fact, it’s really type of late to the social gathering, however at the very least Samsung now presents the longest assure.

Late final 12 months, LG dedicated to at the very least 4 years of OS upgrades for all 2024 fashions, in addition to some 2023 and 2022 fashions retroactively. We’ve additionally seen many smaller platforms disappear in favor of safer, better-maintained platforms like Android TV and Hearth TV. For instance, Panasonic lately dropped its myHomeScreen in favor of Amazon’s streaming platform.

Samsung is perhaps late, however we’re nonetheless fairly excited to see a seven-year replace cycle right here. In spite of everything, most of us preserve our TVs for at the very least 5 years. Heck, I’ve an previous “dumb” TV in my daughter’s bed room that’s now about 13 years previous.

Beforehand, you’d purchase a brand new sensible TV solely to search out that new streaming providers and apps weren’t supported after a few years. However this new change ought to make {that a} factor of the previous. It additionally means you don’t essentially want the most recent set to have the very best software program expertise attainable.

It’s value noting that Samsung clarifies this dedication will apply to AI TVs. Within the phrases of Samsung Electronics’ President of the Visible Show Enterprise Division, “With the seven-year free improve of Tizen utilized to AI TVs, we are going to widen the hole in market share with Chinese language firms.”

Samsung has been utilizing this time period extra ceaselessly to explain its newer AI-equipped TVs, which hopefully means any mannequin launched in 2024 will get this new promised replace cycle. It’s additionally attainable that a number of of the higher-end 2023 fashions may see extra frequent updates as nicely.