There is a Google+ post today from David Schuster of Motorola updating that the 1st gen Moto X, G and E will go to 5.1 directly rather than 5.0.2.
https://plus.google.com/+DavidSchuster/posts/cV4vDyyMmw2
But in that post is embedded this comment from Matt Jones, also of Motorola:
So, that's why they don't give dates, and why they give updates only periodically when they can. The fact is that they just don't know when updates are going to be ready.
I continue to maintain that they could do better than they do with communication. I've said a number of times that I am not looking for a deadline date. I am reasonable and realistic, and that is too specific. They could be more forthcoming with the status of updates on an ongoing basis. A continuing conversation, not a deadline.
They could and they should as far as I'm concerned. That's excellent customer service. Instead, they cower from the lowest common denominator that will freak out if they don't get the update on the first day of whatever range they might shoot for.
In discussing the topic here in the past, my main frustration is that posters take an either/or mentality...either they should give us THE date, or they shouldn't tell us anything. Or at least, that it's OK they don't tell us anything.
What Moto, its defenders, and plenty of other companies say by way of defense (we can't give a date), also usually includes what they could do (the situation is fluid). So, stop taking a fluid situation and trying to hang a deadline on it. Take a fluid situation and update us as it changes.
Not a hard thing to do.