Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

Michael Degusta tells a sad story in Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support:

I went back and found every Android phone shipped in the United States up through the middle of last year. I then tracked down every update that was released for each device - be it a major OS upgrade or a minor support patch - as well as prices and release & discontinuation dates. I compared these dates & versions to the currently shipping version of Android at the time. The resulting picture isn’t pretty - well, not for Android users.

My iPhone 3G stopped being updated only a few months ago, and is now 1 major version behind.  In fact, iPhones are the only devices I've ever owned that has had regular long term updates, even across major versions, for free.