I like and use Android, but this makes a good case regarding one of the weaknesses of a fragmented platform that manufacturers do a poor job of supporting. Of course, non-phone-geeks won’t care that much about whether their phone has the latest OS (and updating to the latest OS was largely what made my Droid 1 unusable), but then again, if you’re not a phone geek you’re likely to gravitate to the simplicity of iOS anyway.

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The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…