[Desire HD General] Mustaavalkosta:
Well, your analogy with cars doesn't apply here fully as you are not as much in touch with that software as you are with device which whole UI is based on the software it runs. Until car's pedals and rest of the things that you are mostly in direct contact with are somehow digitalized into a upgradable software, I just ignore this analogy while it is true in some level as software controls the engine etc.

What I'm basicly saying is that you can't upgrade a land vehicle to a flying vehicle thus adding flying feature with a software upgrade while you can upgrade your phone from not having to have a tethering feature for example, which increases its use value even if the user didn't previously crave for that feature he may now suddenly find it useful. :p

By "no work" I meant the end-user. The end-user mostly doesn't care what is done behind closed doors inside the company as he has no direct control over it. Only thing that matters is what he or she gets out of that company and how it affects his or hers daily life.

Anyways, all the previous is indifferent as you don't seem to get my overall point. So, let's think about 2 companies with 2 high-end phone models with pretty much the same hardware and with software that offers same features at the time of purchase. Let's forget about the aesthetics as they are subjective to some point. Let's say company A has a reputation of a frequent and long updater while the company B is doing no updates at all or at least has very bad reputation about them. All the while generic future updates by 3rd party software developer (in this case Google) are more or less guaranteed.

Are you implying that when you have to decide between these companies A and B with their almost identical products hardware-wise and software-wise that their update history or policy shouldn't have any role at all when you are deciding between them? As if you could just toss a coin and be done with it while that coin toss could possibly bite you in the ass in a year or two when the other option has received more use value and the other hasn't? And why is that instead of careful choosing process, one should just gamble on it as the phones in this case are non-aesthetically identical?

This is what I called stupid and the issue I can't understand as it's completely ignoring the facts. Like choosing between 2 identical doors and knowingly choosing the one that most likely has an empty room behind it instead of the one that likely will have roomful of useful tools to help you in your daily life. Even if the latter in the end won't have those goodies, it's still more logical option to choose as there is that promise of possible increase in use value that the other one doesn't have or at the most has it at very diminished probability.

And to your 2.3 -> 4.0 question, read my previous post about the Chrome and countless other apps that only work in 4.0 or above. Of course, this is not HTC's fault but in the end use value increase for the user nevertheless. But this wasn't even the main point in my query, so let's just leave it to that and think about this issue in more abstract level with only increased use value in mind. My fault even bringing the specifics up in my previous post. :)

Hopefully this clears it up, if not, maybe this is just too philosophical (my other big enthusiasm in addition to tech) in essence for me to explain it in my second language. :cool: