[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Cor-master:
I'll tell you what, I do see both sides of this. On one hand from google's perspective it's 2 generations old, the OMAP 4460 not only is extremely outdated, it was mediocre in its own time, getting its ass thumped by the Tegra 3 and Snapdragon S3 (why in gods name they went with a gpu that was already over a year old at the time of its launch is beyond me, don't quite get why it didn't just have the same SoC as the Galaxy S2). Even though TI was extremely successful with their chips powering motorola phones, Nook and Kindle Tablets, and several Samsung devices, they decided "this market is too scary, we're a bunch of cowards, we're going back to making graphing calculators from the 90's and DLP technology no one uses", and google doesn't want to deal with the hassle of getting drivers for the new kernal. They also have alot on their plate now as its just just 1 phone a year, since July of 2012 you've had the OG nexus 7, nexus 4, nexus 10, GPE Galaxy S4, GPE HTC One, new nexus 7, and nexus 5, and somewhere on the horizon, who knows when, a new nexus 10 is coming out. So trying to build a customized kitkat rom for one device that doesn't even have support from the oem that made the chipset is too much for a company that isn't even technically a hardware company anyway.So I do get it, no matter how much I've complained about it.

However the big fail was releasing it on the play store so late in its life. If you signed a 2 year contract to get one from sprint or verizon, get over it. You should know now what to expect from a carrier phone. It may say "nexus" but its a carrier phone and is subject to all the carrier bs, and feel grateful for how many more updates you got then every other phone that came out thereabouts the same time. But if you spent $390 to buy one off the play store, I feel your pain. Google should of NEVER put the Gnex on the play store if they were going to release it that late. Technically the playstore version isn't even 18 months old yet. I was pretty damn close to getting one myself because I had an HTC Vivid that was actually newer and more powerful than the Gnex, yet was one and done after an an update to ics 4.03 that broke more things than it fixed, and development sucked because not that many people owned it, and there were alot of hardware tweaks that created alot of hurdles the few developers we had couldn't overcome. Only reason I got a nexus 4 instead is these unlocked nexus phones are expensive, and by the time I had the cash to replace that piece of crap HTC Vivid (with its terrible 4-8 hours of battery life and plethora of bugs that AT&T or HTC never addressed...don't get me started, I really loathe that phone now), the Gnex was gone and the Nexus 4 was out. So I easily could be in the same boat and I feel for you guys that feel cheated over this whole ordeal.

But the bottom line here now I think is, unlike my vivid, you guys have a HUGE developer community! There's no tricks to obtaining "s-off", or workarounds to unlock the bootloader, it was practically designed for custom roms. I say the time has passed for *****ing, and time to get your devs together and start building your update. I know for me one piece of mind i had buying 2 nexus devices was knowing that even after Google cut it off there would be plenty of development to keep me using it for months, even years later.

That's all I got. Hope you enjoyed, and got a laugh out of some parts of this post.