Handset makers actually want to make you buy another phone. It's completely not in their interest to upgrade your device, they want you to buy another. That's

Handset makers actually want to make you buy another phone. It's completely not in their interest to upgrade your device, they want you to buy another. That's why I don't get how google thinks their hands off scheme has a snowball's chance in hell of taking off. Handset vendors aren't going to just start supporting the latest version of Android out of the goodness of their hearts. Now if they can get the specs of the required system down to about 1/2 the cost of what it currently is, then that's less of a problem: We can buy new phones without worrying about them being upgradable. But in the current ecosystem, with the current costs of phones, and the current unwillingness of google to put their money on the line getting manufactuers to update their builds, Android plain loses to iPhone, which is very very sad for everyone.