When I said I wanted to switch to Android, what I really meant was that I wanted to switch to Lollipop. Unfortunately, the Nexus 5 which I bought only came with Android 4.4.3. Still, being a Nexus, I thought that it was just a matter of hitting that update button once I got back home.
So the first thing I did after connecting the phone to the Wi-Fi network at home was checking if Lollipop update was there. There was an update alright, but it wasn't Lollipop. It was 4.4.4, a minor update over what it already had. I was disappointed at first, but I thought maybe it will show up if I updated to this version. So I updated to 4.4.4 but that was indeed the latest version available for the phone.
I've seen people with Nexus 5S running Lollipop - in fact the sales staff person showed me his phone running Lollipop - so I thought I might have done something wrong. It was time to hit the internet. According to the information available on the internet, Google was rolling the Lollipop update out gradually for the Nexus 5 users, possibly to keep sever load in check. Probably because my device was only just activated, it must have been pushed to the end of the queue.
I played the patient game for a few days, but there's so long one could wait. I finally gave in and looked for alternatives. Although the over the air update was still due, it seemed that you could manually update to Lollipop. With iOS, updating the OS manually is a walk in the park. But that's not the case with Android. Knowing how to update is just one part of the story. You also need to know how to recover from an error. Again, iOS was way superior in that regard.
