If you are going to compare apples to Androids that way, and how about doing it in a way which makes sense? No a random HTC phone may not be upgradable to Android 4, but neither is my iPhone 3G.

Is that an argument against either iphone or Android?

No. If you are going to cite platform advantages tied to going full vertical, you need to compare iOS on Apple hardware with Android on Google hardware. And guess what? That works out the same.

an iphone less than a year old can be upgraded.

Even on a Nexus you can find yourself without the upgrade for extended periods of time: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/04/27/verizon-to-blame-for...

It does not work out the same. QED

Congratulations on getting further and further from the point, constantly drawing new straw men while accusing mebof so, and losing all arguments arguments so far.

So far you have proven that you as a iPhone-user are retarded and unable to get back basic point, have no perspective, trolling or all the above.

I'll stop wasting my time on you. You seem like the kind of person who would deem even a death sentence superior to anything as long as it comes from Apple.

I provided arguments with evidence. You resorted to ad hominem.