Really? Does it have Siri? Does it have FaceTime? Does it have turn-by-turn navigation (the one added feature of the Apple Maps catastrophe)? Is notification Center the only substantial feature added since iOS4? Can the iOS6 running on the 3GS really be considered the same as the iOS6 running on e.g. the iPhone 4S? Or is it iOS4 with a few extra APIs for developers?

I mean, Google releases updates to the Google Apps on Android for quite a substantial amount of time, so it's quite possible that unupdated Android devices are actually getting almost the same level of support as the 3GS. The only difference is that app developers have to bundle the [new APIs](http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/support-library.ht...) with their Android apps while Apple pushes the new API onto devices.

but the original Nexus will still receive the latest google maps, gmail, etc that aren't tied to the OS version like they are in iOS.