[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nexusaurus:
I've seen many people arguing that GNex had 3 MAJOR OS updates. GNex started with Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich", then got Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" (with minor upgrades 4.1.1,4.1.2) then Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean" (with minor upgrades 4.2.1, 4.2.2) and Android 4.3 "Jelly Bean", the picture is like this:

4.0

4.1 (4.1.1, 4.1.2)

4.2 (4.2.1, 4.2.2)

4.3

Taking this into account, the ONLY "MAJOR" is from 4.0 to 4.1 which brought many improvements, but wasnt a REALLY big bump like lets say Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" to 4.0 "ICS" (speaking about smartphones, I know HoneyComb was Android 3.0 just for tablets)

Andriod 4.2 and 4.3 were just minor updates and brought many fixes. a lot more that they fixed. Those version had a even more minor updated (4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2) which just fixed SOME of the bugs that those X.1 updates brought.

Even 4.3 was a minor update that brought 2 BIG issues: WIFI Auto Connect Bug and Display Glitch Bug. Google doesnt even care about those highly reported and well documented bugs. Leaving us, GNex users, with a mediocre user experience.

Sure, many will claim: "Just install Tasker and your Wifi Bug will go" "The Display Glith is a minor glitch, not annoying". That fact is that is because of people thinking like that that companies treat us like $sh1t. Is because of that companies are allowed to only give us "18 full monts of support" . Really? 18 months, 1 year and a half? WIth the hardware in modern smartphones, that period of time is just to small for a phone become obsolete. Many high-end smartphone released in the last months (fall 2013) comes with 4 core processor or even 8 core processor, but the reality is that many apps are not even optimized for 4 core processors. Many apps in Android are so bad optimized that even having a 8 core processor dont make those app run faster or better. I own a GNex and I feel it perfect. I have the most popular apps and other not so popular and all of them run perfectly, I dont have the need to update my 2 Core Processor and 1 GB RAM because those ARE ENOUGH for the modern apps to run smoothly. Many geeks like US, the ones visiting techy sites, want the most new in smatphones just to open their favorite apps in 0.0003 seconds faster which is OK, but is not worth for me.

Programmed obsolescence is something that companies have been doing since early XX century in order to accumulate wealth for those greedy fatty men.Is this recession, I'm not allowed to buy a smartphone each year or even each 2 years, even less when my smartphone is perfectly capable of running all the apps that 8 core processor phones are also capable of. The excuse of Texas Instruments "stepping out" or SoC manufacturing is very lame, because they still make drivers, they are just quitting the hardware portion. Google can demand TI to develop drivers for the OMAP chip inside my GNex. Money? Google makes money every time I search for cute cats in their search engine, every time I open a site in their Chrome browser, every time I open my Gmail account, hell, they even make money I open sites like this and see those Ad Sense ads. They make easy money from me, at least I can ask for them to update my GNex in this incremental update. I would understand if this update was big enough that the GNex hardware couldnt hold that update and not capable of running it. But this is not true and the moniker "Bringing Android to many low spec devices as low as 512 RAM" means that this incremental update to Android is heavily optimized to run in devices half the specs that the Gnex.

And you know what's the better part? For those that bought a Nexus 4 recently or even for those that bought it 12 months ago: Your device has only 180 days left of support from Google. Start the countdown.......