Several other companies have had the power to tell Verizon that some things aren’t negotiable if they want to sell a phone that anyone wants.  That would include both the Galaxy Nexus (Samsung) and the iPhone (Apple) and Verizon has complied (probably reluctantly).

Is Motorola any less strong as a company than those two that it is so unwilling to tell Verizon “Your customers are our customers too.  Here are some of the things we wish to do as we go forward in our partnership (e.g., software update timetables/releases, user-downloadable-void-your-warranty bootloader unlockers) so that people continue to buy our phones as they continue their contract with you”?

If Motorola isn’t using some of its marketing muscle with Verizon to help people like us, doesn’t that really mean some of this issue is Motorola’s, and it isn’t all on Verizon?

Interesting….

Who said Verizon doesn’t allow ICS? I certainly never did. And are you really referring to the Galaxy Nexus? You do realize shipping with ICS and upgrading to it are two very different things right? Carriers don’t have to spend months certifying the Nexus AGAIN for software it launched with…

And sure, a few days ago two roms leaked for the D3, but sure, Moto’s not working on it. Those leaks came from someone else.

No it being stock isn’t why people bought it you twit. It was the marketing, I certainly don’t remember any Droid commercials advertising it as a stock android device. The advertised it as android, and android doesn’t stop being android just because you put a skin on it. Most people don’t know stock android form the backs of their heads. I work in close quarters with at least 10 android users on a daily basis. Not a single friggen one of them can tell me what build of android they’re running or whether or not they’re running stock. And 3 of those people have T-Mobile G2s…and you want me to believe it was stock android that sold the Droid and not the most aggressive phone marketing push the world’s ever seen.
YOU are not representative of the entire customer base of android and neither are all the other skin haters on his blog. Look how many devices Samsung moved worldwide last year. You know how many of those models were stock? And I’ll bet my kidneys that the majority of those devices sold haven’t even been rooted. People just don’t care that much.

And wtf do you mean others are releasing ICS? Where? What phone on sale right now has ICS besides the Nexus? Oh wait there’s that Huawei on sale in china, and what else? Don’t worry I’ll wait…
You moron.