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Another factor that's important to me is that the Nexus One is virtually guaranteed to get Android updates as soon as they're released, while with the Incredibl

• whalesalad 17y ago
  Yeah, that was huge for me in the list of deciding factors. In my last paragraph I discuss all of them, and that was definitely important. It took Verizon forever to get 2.1 on the Droid, and they left all their other devices out in the cold. That's the sad thing about wireless companies... they just don't care. They're focused on gaining customers and do that with new devices, not updates to old ones. Google is independent from all of that, and they actually seem to care about their users :)
• po 17y ago
  This reminds me of the issue with a laptop like one of the Sony VAIO series. The hardware is super nice, and the software would be decent, but you would be screwed if you ever wanted to upgrade or reinstall. Finding the correct drivers was a challenge. Not many companies really understand that even though the sale of the device is over, your responsibility to the customer isn't. That customer will expect you to support what they want to do until they feel like they have gotten their money's worth out of it. With a lot of people, upgrading or reinstalling windows from scratch was a standard practice and they expected to be able to do it. I think the same is true of android customers.
• nimrody 17y ago
  Most cell phone manufacturers see Google's frequent releases as an annoyance they would rather not deal with. New releases mean re-testing the product. It's expensive, time consuming, and the new software may reveal new hardware/firmware bugs.