Snapdragon Takes a Jab at Google with Twitter Red Flag Meme
“We’ve decided to make our own smartphone SoC instead of using Snapdragon,” reads the tweet, followed by an enormous amount of red flags. It was supposed to be a funny lighthearted joke, but it didn’t really go as Snapdragon’s social media manager would have planned.
Hours after the tweet went live, several users have replied to the tweet mocking Snapdragon. In other words, the tweet got ‘ratioed’, as avid Twitter users would say. Most of the arguments were valid though, including the heating issues and lack of extended firmware support for Snapdragon chips. Wouldn’t you agree? Check out Qualcomm Snapdragon’s salty tweet below: “We’ve decided to make our own smartphone SoC instead of using Snapdragon” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩— Snapdragon (@Snapdragon) October 13, 2021
Despite Project Treble enhancements, Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset promises up to three years of major OS updates and four years of security updates. If the latest rumor is anything to go by, the Pixel 6 series with Tensor chip will get four years of Android OS updates and five years of security patches.
As 9to5Google points out, Google breaking ties with Qualcomm won’t significantly impact the company, considering the limited scale and market share of Pixel phones. However, Google’s ambitions with Tensor chip will hopefully set a new benchmark for software support, at least on the Android side of things.
