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9. To not even give an ICS update is inexcusable, especially given that this was a flagship, spec-pushing phone when it came out; and to just ignore your userbase as they repeatedly petition you year after year for the most basic updates or the tools necessary to update it themselves... It's just awful. Not quite a 10, because at least it ran GB and wasn't intentionally locked as a measure against independent development, and at least it's a good machine--it has its quirks, but mine, at least, is still going strong after two years, ignoring the bugs LG has made inescapable for community-developed mods. Even today not everyone has a phone they can shove a playstation emulator onto and play through all four disks of FF9 without issue or lag! I've had a good time with this machine--thanks to its hardware specs and the ceaseless efforts of the devs here. But if LG had just bothered to provide the most basic updates, which even total crap phones all around are getting, or had made the faintest effort, alongside NVidia, to work with their user community on the driver issue--if any of that had happened, I wouldn't be counting the paychecks until I can drop a few hundred on a new device, and I wouldn't have had to deal with hideous bugs and nasty workarounds on every single ROM I've used for the past two years. No one's owed any special treatment by LG, but if you produce and advertise a high-quality computing device and you keep all the crucial code secret, you can't just abandon your customers and not bother to provide any updates afterwards; it's especially galling to watch the P990 community enjoying an utterly different situation with respect to its baseband, while we all sit here, stuck.