Since Google's sale of Motorola to Lenovo in 2014, the Motorola brand has swiftly fallen from amongst the best Android updaters to perhaps the worst, a trend to officially worsen with their brand new Moto Z4.
Lenovo's latest flagship from their Moto brand – which they acquired from Google in 2014 – released only days ago running a near-stock Android Pie experience; and yet it will receive only a single update, to August's Android Q, the company has officially confirmed.
As could be expected, back when Motorola was owned by Google they provided a sort of precursor to Google's current Android One initiative – with stock UI and fast updates, however ever since the brand's sale to Lenovo, who is infamous for their terrible software support, ‘Moto' became purely a branding choice and their devices have suffered OS update issues that rival even the worst in the industry – if not becoming that lowest bar themselves.
Given the track record the modern Moto brand now maintains, that depressing single update that the literally only days-old Moto Z4 will receive will presumably not even arrive for many, many months after Android Q's official release.
When there are so many devices, particularly from Chinese manufacturers, which wipe the floor with Lenovo Moto's hardware value while offering equal or often even better – given Moto's incredibly low bar – software support at much lower prices like the pretty Meizu 16s, and Google's new Pixel 3a series which offer stellar support and decent hardware at lower prices, what possible argument does Lenovo Moto posses to entice customers to their offerings?
The answer is none.
As far as I'm concerned, Lenovo Moto's official recognition of their terrible software support signs the death warrant for their lineup, and it's always sad, and bad for consumers when competition decreases.
Source: XDA Developers
