Wedge

Or just buy a shitty phone, it'll be cheaper and you can wait a few more years until the perfect phone is out :p

Of relevance, http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

Wow.. interesting article! Apple wins 10-0. :o

fragmentation much? http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/27/unlike_apples_ios_android_phones_not_getting_updates.html

Same chart, heh, but yes.

I remember that chart being ridiculed by some site due to it's bias and how iPhone 3G has absolutely crappy performance at iOS 4 and above. Regardless, I couldn't care less, I haven't kept a phone for more than a year.

Against all my original instincts, I ordered a beautiful Galaxy Note set to arrive on Tuesday.

Whether the performance sucks or not, security is a matter for concern.

 Galaxy Note?

Youre comparing apples and hand-grenades..

ios does not get implemented in full on those phones.. Does the iphone 3gs get siri? no? 

http://www.androidcentral.com/editorial-fun-%E2%80%98fragmentation%E2%80%99-charts-or-why-you-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-distracted-shiny-objects

3GS is over 3 years old, which makes sense for a outdated hardware. Google Nexus won't get Ice Cream Sandwhich which is barely even 1 year old. What? There is a difference.

The 3GS might not get Siri but it does get all the other things like security updates in iOS 5, as far as I know.

First, there is more than one "google nexus" but I will assume you meant the only one not officially receiving the 4.0 update which is the nexus one.  Second, the nexus one is almost 2 years old.  It came out in Jan 2010.  Please check your facts. Finally, there is a reason its not getting 4.0.  Its not fast enough and would not make for a good user experience... I guess they want to avoid what apple did to the iphone 3g when ios 4 came out, they put it on the iphone 3g and everyone who had it said it was total crap and made their phones worthless. The original iphone and 3g will not receive ios5 and apple since they have such a small line up of phones can break out features that require more horsepower, like siri.  Android doesnt do that.  So to recap, the iphone and iphone 3g will not receive ios5.  The iphone 3gs and 4 will recieve stripped down versions aka ios5 "lite".. the only one getting ios5 with all the features is the iphone 4s.
Correct, and google did not abandon the 2.x code for security updates when they brought out the 3.x code so I have no reason to suspect they will do the same now.  There have been security updates to gingerbread all summer and I have been getting them.

You're in the minority; as per the chart, not everyone is getting updates even if there is no reason why the phone shouldn't. And even then, vendor crapware sort of limits that too, so you're definitely in the minority.

End of the day, different people use different devices, for different reasons. I'm quite happy using iOS on my device.