[LG Optimus 2x] Bladedwings:
Quality > Quantity. I would prefer it if they only had a few updates per year, but they were something major like upgrading from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich. Android is an open-source product, so the point of it is to allow people to develop for it. What LG is doing doesn't allow other developers to work due to a lack of tools. Sure, they can be like Apple and make minor upgrades to their current OS until it's "perfect" while at the same time locking out everyone else from making their own changes, but that's not what Android is.

Yes, but Microsoft allows your system to be upgradeable to Windows 8 as soon as Windows 8 comes out. If you translate what LG is doing into the context of Microsoft, it'd be like Microsoft releasing Windows 8, but only if you buy the newest computer from them.

LG is a phone manufacturer, and the software is part of the phone. Yes you can say that they don't have to update, but when you have competing phone Manufacturers like Samsung who make sure to keep their phones up to date with the latest software, LG becomes a manufacturer that's trailing behind. You can always find someone who is also doing something wrong, but if companies in the same market as you are doing things you aren't, then your strategy is lacking and the service you provide is lower quality.

GPS and Android phones are different, but for the sake of argument lets play along. If in the GPS market there was a new provider, let's say BOBBOB, and they released their updates to existing hardware, therefore not making people buy new hardware if they want to use the newer software, TOMTOM would instantly become sub-standard and less people will buy it. The people who still own TOMTOM would look at BOBBOB and think, "damn, why can't TOMTOM be like BOBBOB..." Which is what is happening here.

Actually, if you browsed a lot of threads on this forum, you'd find that many people have sold their G2x to purchase the Galaxy Nexus for the purpose of receiving software upgrades. I'm sure many people would be happy with paying for software if many people are willing to buy an entire new phone. Besides, this is not a valid premise for an argument because paying for new software is not what Android is about. By locking people out like that, you're defeating the whole purpose of open-source.

Windows XP worked fine too, but with newer features and a more elegant look, Windows 7 is superior in many ways. Just like ICS/JB is superior. Furthermore, this is treading in the waters of subjective reasoning.

Again, this is subjective.

2X isn't getting JB officially. What we're discussing here is the official release. The JB we're going to get is going to be using parts from the ICS release, something the S2 community has already been doing for a while.

Your previous arguments, although not entirely thought out, had actual sense to them, but now you're just spewing words that have no merit or logic.

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As for the topic at hand, I'm just hoping that with the release of ICS for our phones, the JB version we get from it will be more stable than the ICS version we have now. I've read people saying that JB has a lot of differences from ICS, so it'll still be relatively buggy, and people say that JB is a minor update so JB should be relatively stable once we get the ICS release. I don't really know who to listen to at this point, so I'm just hoping for the best