>>What does that have to do with phones?
It has to do with fragmentation, which is the focus of the blog post you cited in a thread about whether to choose an Android or Apple phone.
Android has been criticized for fragmentation compared to Apple.
Does this matter?
I looked to Windows which also is a dominant OS and also is fragmented compared to Apple.
I don't think that many people would consider Windows fragmentation as the reason to choose Mac.
Why wouldn't this apply to phone OS too?
Samsung, Motorola etc are highly experienced in the phone arena so I don't believe they missed something that the blog author spotted. IMHO it's more likely that they don't think their customers care about fragmentation, or perhaps they've concluded that it's easier to condition users to upgrade their device rather than messing with the innards.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
