And this is why I’m leaving the Android side of things when my contract is up. Yes, I can buy just nexus devices, but aside from that I have to consider whether my shiny new device will ever get an upgrade. Google can ship all of the cool new Android revs it wants to, but if those don’t get to me, I don’t care. My Vibrant got an update from 2.1 to 2.2 (by which time I’d flashed a custom 2.2 ROM). But that was it. Sure, the phone’s 18 months old. So? Oh wait, right. Samsung and T-Mobile make no money by giving me updates and Google can’t because it’s not a Nexus device. I’m not the customer in this constellation of interests – Samsung and T-Mo are. So, I’ll be getting an iPhone this fall. There I am the customer… and Apple has a history of supporting devices for around 3 years with OS updates. Not 3 months.