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I read it as the opposite: Android users can update their software regardless of what their manufacturer does.

I think you missed the irony. Such a small percentage of people will ever type something into a terminal that it's irrelevant.

Even more that command would not give you the ability to reflash your phone.

You would still have to root it and get a rom that works on that model.

All that really means is that most people don't really care that much about the number buried way deep in their phone's Settings menus.

Yeah, but they do care when the app they want to use won't work on their phone because their software is too old.