Good for you. But will it change how the software works in any way?

Then buy a work PC for home use.

Next problem?

And I'm not quite ready to go to single-player mode. Still figuring out 13..

It's not the end of silicon that's in sight. It's the end of the growth described by Moore's Law, ultimately the end of shrinking silicon devices, and the beginning of either cleverer manufacturing.

It the end of civilization as we know it, depending on how many friends in the semiconductor business you have...

When I lived in country like that, we called storage >1 day a "generator".

1. That other eco system doesn't deliver updates to every single device on the same day.

2. Nexus devices are popular enough to be a big enough population to encourage staging updates.

Google does not do integration for the carrier-specific bits. Whine to your carrier about their slow progress.

You know the answer. Android releases must be adapted to the different makes and models of phones. Apple has to deal with about 6 different phones. Samsung alone has more different models.

My M7 got updated to Kit Kat about 16 months after purchase, and will get Lollipop on time, probably 19 months after purchase.

Blanket 'they don't update phones >1 year old' statements are both false and unfounded. If 1) Google gave your manufacturer an image, and 2) your manufacturer customized it, then 3) the carrier has to brand it and release to you. If step 2 or 3 are missed, blame the appropriate party.

If Google decided not to issue an image, it is likely because they unilaterally decided the phone was not capable of providing an adequate user experience with the new software. My G1 went through this, and my Sensation 4G also. my M7 and M8 will too someday.

Let it go. Please.

Every useful site that discusses this already pointed out that these OTA releases are staged to avoid overwhelming networks (even your lame WiFi you steal from your neighbor) and to catch any problems before they blow it all out to every user.

Whiners asking 'why haven't its been so long i never get' apparently did not read any of these. Please go find a site that makes this clear, and stick to it for future useful information. The others, feh.

And, if you have not already seen (which I'm sure you haven't), 5.0.1 is released. Looks like 5.0 had enough problems for a maintenance update already. You should now breath a sigh of relief that you did not get an update, which would have annoyed you with any of the myriad nuisances out there.

My N7 2013 is still waiting also, and I decided not to sideload it. Now I'll wait for 5.0.1 to go through the GPE devices, then through the early update populations, and I bet it goes around pretty quickly. There is evidence that 5.0 had enough bugs that Google convinced the manufacturers to hold off and wait for a minor (?) patch.

He's still wrong if he did or not. Plenty of telecom infrastructure around every tower, with fixes for every tower not so close. It just costs.

Profits.

WiFi on my phone isn't worth the trouble is leaving it on, signing in to the hotspots, password for the personal WiFi at work, and the lame public networks overwhelmed with everyone else.

I leave it off, keep my T-Mobile unlimited for real 4g, and let the wankers fight over '\free' WiFi.

Where I work, we use a Wang system based on a Honeywell system to store and manage images. It's still state of the art, was when it was introduced, and is living on in emulated hardware that does, in fact, work very very well. Downtime is measured in single digit minutes per year.

It certainly meets the common definition of 'legacy'

People use 'legacy' to describe 'obsolete', 'expensive', or 'not new'. Wrongly in many cases.

Alas, it is popular to replace 'legacy' systems with new ones that the newer teams understand better and are more comfortable fixing. Note I did not say just 'understand'. Nor did I claim that these are 'better'. Just more comfortable.

'far too much influence'

You have an objective measure of this value?

Please share.

The 'ignition switch' in a diesel car turns on the electrical, of course can engage the starter, and permits accessory mode etc.

Since diesels employ explosive detonation instead of spark-induced combustion, they do not require an actual ignition source other than the heat of compression (and probably a little help from chamber edges and hot spots).

Eliminating the ignition system is a useful advantage for diesels.