A bit over a year ago, I bought the first generation Moto X from... well, Verizon "sold" me the phone, but it shipped directly from Motorola, then owned by Google. For reasons I'll mostly skip (signal/reception), I needed to stay with Verizon.

I bought the Moto X largely on the... assurance ("promise"?) that this particular phone, coming from a Google-owned Motorola, would actually be updated expeditiously by not just the manufacturer but also, downstream, Verizon.

Well, about a month ago my still 4.4.4 phone received an update. FINALLY. Then I looked at the version information; still at 4.4.4 .

I tell you, Google, I'm about done with your mobile products. Not that I hate dealing with them, with Android, but the U.S. (and elsewhere?) ecosphere for them simply sucks.

At least I am at 4.4.4 . Were I at 4.4.3, the last I read I would be subject to a web component vulnerability that Google has refused to fix below 4.4.4 . I suspect there are a lot of phones and tablets stuck at 4.4.3 or below. In fact, my parents have one, a Samsung tablet sold to the by... VERIZON, about a year and a half ago. (And they didn't buy at the cheap/old end of Verizon's tablet offerings.)

I am DONE with this bullshit. Meanwhile, Apple seems to have added some efficiencies to iOS that now allow a 4s phone (not sure about 4) to work reasonably well.

I was staying away from Apple's rather closed ecosphere and attitude. I am seriously reconsidering, at this point. I need my primary phone to fucking work and be reliable. I'll keep the more experimental stuff to other platforms.