One UI 7 on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra shows 7 years of updates can work

When Samsung and Google started promising 7 years of phone software support, I naturally took a wait-and-see attitude. Seven years of support sounds excellent on paper, and I’m all for companies helping keep our expensive smartphones viable for longer, but if the execution is poor, what’s the point? If future updates will only cripple older devices, it’s better to leave them on previous software versions.