This is one of the main reasons I dumped my HTC Android phone (to buy an iPhone). It became painfully clear that the OS was <i>never</i> going to be updated, and the value of a market of apps becomes very low when they all stop supporting your OS.
The Android team needs to take this to heart:<p>"The Paradox of Choice"<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/0060005696/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/006000...</a><p>All the more so when the eventual implications of a decision remain hidden and indeterminate.