> The only way they can get more of your money is to sell you a new phone which they hope to do between 1-2 years from now.

Which is why I would absolutely love to see a hardware vendor adopt paid updates, with a mission statement along these lines:

"we cannot believably promise a reliable progression of software updates, because too many before is have tried and failed. What we can do, however, is rewrite the rules so that we will have a much stronger incentive to follow through than or predecessors".