> Leo Laporte, who says he's had every Android phone that's ever come out, said today on The Tech Guy, that if you bought your Android last year you may never be able to get the current version of the operating system. Is that true? Of course we all know that the Nexus Androids are able to be upgraded much more than the rest but can one make the blanket statement Leo did?
One inherent problem with an open operating system is that each hardware maker can (and usually does) tweak it to work in some "improved" fashion on *their* hardware.
It is then incumbent on the hardware maker to incorporate Google's Android upgrades into their version of the OS so as to propagate the system upgrade to their machines.
Do they?
Often not, and more often not so well.
Apple and iOS is a "closed ecology". Newest iOS upgrades may not be applicable to the oldest hardware, but, to take an example, iOS 5.0.1 works seamlessly well on the 4S, the 4, AND on the 3GS.
Of course, older hardware may not be able to take advantage of ALL the improvements in the iOS upgrade, but the ones that apply to the old hardware work, as noted, seamlessly.
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