It appears my advice to stick to Google's Nexus devices to ensure OS updates would be provided may not have been very good after all. Then again, what Android phone would you buy if you wanted to ensure software updates would be available?

"Android is a fast follower. The first Android prototypes looked like Blackberries because that was the input paradigm of 2006. When capacitive touch was shown to be a better input method, Android reacted swiftly. When app stores created a new medium Android reacted swiftly. When the iPad demonstrated that computing can be done in new settings, Android reacted. At such time when there will be nothing to follow Android will be the king of the last commoditized innovation, but as long as there is something worth inventing Android will be there to reproduce it."

I have to agree with this, and Android users should be worried about Android becoming too dominant. if there is nothing to reproduce, what will become of Android. I hate to make a Microsoft/Apple comparison here, but when Windows was truly dominant how much innovation came out of Microsoft?

Another example, Internet Explorer 6.

Tim Bray joins Google.

Apple's actions here just reek.

Great to see companies like Google trying to push the Web forward.