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Originally Posted by rollercoaster
7. In the end, the user gets the update very late and doesnt like it. In addition it dawns on the user that very soon the manufacturer and the cellular carrier will stop churning out updates for their specific model. They are profit oriented corps after all. So a droid starts dying as soon as it is born. 
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This happened to me -- I had my Samsung Moment for less than a year when Samsung/Sprint stopped updating it. I guess I was lucky that it was upgraded from 1.6 to 2.1 (there are a lot of apps that will not run on 1.6) but it has been frozen there. When Sony came out with it's Android app, I was out of luck because it needed at least 2.2 to run (and that is when I upgraded to my Samsung Epic 4G -- a Galaxy S phone and what the Moment should have been.)
Now that the Galaxy S II has been released, I expect my current phone will soon become frozen as well, if it hasn't already. I haven't run into any "needs at least OS xx to run" messages yet, so I must be okay for now.
I like the idea that with an iPhone, I won't have to wonder if my phone has the right update for whatever new app I want to download -- it just always will.
On the other hand, I'm not sure if I can customize an iPhone's pages as much as I do my Android pages, and it would bother me to not be able to have icons for specific contacts or multiple groups with the same application.