That's the vendors fault really, forcing their crap software onto the OS and not wanting to invest to keep things up to date to allow updates. Google and Micros

That's the vendors fault really, forcing their crap software onto the OS and not wanting to invest to keep things up to date to allow updates. Google and Microsoft both do regular updates to their OS, and if you go with a non-vendor phone (like Nexus), you'll get all those updates. But yeah, the software situation from most phone vendors is atrocious.