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A shame
by getaceres on Thu 5th Dec 2013 10:52 UTC
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The difference is Google does not want to sell phones but services so it doesn't put so many attention in post-sale support. Once you're using its services, it doesn't matter for if you're using KitKat or ICS or even Gingerbread. On the opposite, phones sales is an important part of Apple's business so they care about the products they sell.
That way, in Android you'll get updates to Gmail, Google+, Google Search, Google Maps and so way longer than the iPhone release cycle but not so many OS updates. When next version comes out next year with the next Nexus Phone, only the Nexus 5 will be updated. There's a great chance the Nexus 4 will be left in whatever version it will be running at that time, specially if there's a big change in the OS. The thing is Google doesn't care, the Nexus 4 will be receiving updates for all the Google Services for some years to come.

Edited 2013-12-05 10:52 UTC

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