Originally posted by Steve
Just saying that stock rom's aren't always the best, and sometimes community rom's, are way better. Any Galaxy S only has a 2 year support from Google, true, because they always wanna sell the next model, but still, I'd rather have my S1 and S3 than a Nexus.
First of all, I'm simply stating support. The general consumer does not generally know about Android versions so as long as the phone works, it's fine. But someone like me who is a Flashaholic, I constantly flash updates for my GNex (AOKP and Franco's Kernel.) And no phone but a Nexus phone gets support from Google. Each iteration of Android is designed for that years Nexus. The Galaxy S or any other phone form any other OEM is not supported by Google and is only supported by the manufacturer, in this case Samsung. OEMs typically don't support phones that well. I was running Eclair on my Fascinate for MONTHS until Samsung decided to update almost half a year after Froyo came out (never did get Gingerbread I believe.) But I wised up and flashed MIUI, so no wait for me. All phones wait, OEMs stated select phones would be updated to 4.04 by at least Q3 and it's Q4. And some phones not getting updates aren't even a year old. It's a shame that in order to get at least/over a year of support you need a Nexus, but it's not the fault of Android, blame the OEMs who just want to save money.