What happened to that "carrier alliance" with faster Android updates?

Several areas in which Android still hasn't got it right.

-The best selling Android, perversely, makes the cheapest looking chassis of most phones on the market, including other OS's.

-OEM's continue to ship brand new phones with ICS to this day, despite JB being out for half a year.

-many OEM's leave their past phones standing out in the cold for OS updates even if they're only a year ol

  It’s no secret that owners of Android devices love major OS updates, but hate having to wait 6-12 months to update their devices to grab the latest updates.

It has been sixteen months since the first Android Phone entered the market. Since, then Google has released four major versions of the Operating System. These frequent major updates are the cause of Android's fragmentation issue, with hardly any new smartphone running on the latest Android.

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I know that this seems very early but most of the tech sites say that google will release an incremental update this week, 4.3. I know that samsung keeps updating its phones regularly but it takes them a while to do so. Based on your experience with previous samsung flagship phones, do you guys think that it will take them months to release the update?

  In some not-so-surprising news, Android prodigy Jean-Baptiste Queru used Google+ to share why ICS has been a slow update process across all types of Android devices. He begins his opinion by referencing the Sony Tablet P getting the update in a relatively timely manner— 5 months to be exact, despite the major differences between ICS platform and Gingerbread/Honeycomb.

Over the weekend, we told you that the HTC One X would get the Sense 5 update along with Android 4.2.2, but that can’t be the only device can it? Although this information isn’t confirmed by HTC, it comes from @LlabTooFeR, who has a very good track record when it comes to updates. If you own any of the following phones, you can expect to see Sense 5 with Android 4.2.2.

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Google may well have released its Android OS 3.1 Honeycomb update at its recent I/O developer event, but this update needs to be tested and then rolled out by manufacturers and carriers as quickly as possible.

I have 2 phones which run out of (internal) space in the last days. Gmaps could not be installed completely, only after I removed other apps to get space. engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-brings-incremental-app-updates-to-android-added-encrypti and others announced that Google makes incremental updates now. Does this mean that Google freezes the old code and needs a lot more internal memory now.