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Ice Cream Sandwich was created to fix this. Prior to now all updates were controlled by the phone manufacturer and the Cell service provider. Google got them all to agree that all phones ICS or later will be updated during their first 18 months of availability. That was part of why they are working to unify the interface. All the slap on interfaces like MotoBlur and HTC's Sense meant that the manufacturers had to update their interface if they wanted to update their phone. Phones with pure android on the other hand only needed to have the update pushed out to them. The new interface in 4.0 is supposed to remove the need for these front end interfaces and improve update cycles.
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