Right - The devices can be manually upgraded to Pie…for e.g. there is a unofficial Pie build for the Poco F1. It is the OTA update process that is not possible and the team is trying to achieve that.
Personally I am all for sharing the official Pie builds to the users so that they can flash it manually. Subsequent builds can be OTA.
I have been running a /e/ Pie build on my MiA1 since June of this year. Had shared the build on the forum as well.
Hope to get this issue - manual or OTA resolved soon - may be in a week or two.
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