There are definitely some very big upsides to being able to move your entire user base to a new major OS version in a year. Apple benefits a lot from this and G

There are definitely some very big upsides to being able to move your entire user base to a new major OS version in a year. Apple benefits a lot from this and Google and the vendors and carriers need to somehow get their heads together and deal with this because it is a serious issue. I just wanted to point out that there are some good things about a more decoupled model too.