I've never purchased a nexus device well if you count the og droid than I guess I have but since than I've owned HTC devices including the EVO that I returned for an s3. That's a whole different story. Anyways, yes all nexus devices get first dibs on Os updates but have been lacking hardware compared to everyone else. I think and hoping I'm right from now on the nexus phone will be competitive as a whole fphone not just in software. If this is the case I will no llonger be buying non nexus devices. I'm really excited for android ever since pics came out you can tell where the os is going. Its definitely come along away and again I'm very excited to see what the future holds.