It's actually the other way around when placing the blame on delayed OS updates. Google pushes it out and then the OEM's (Scam-Sung included) take forever to push the updates to the phones because they need to reskin the update.
You're absolutely correct. I poorly worded my post. I meant to say that while Samsung excels in the hardware side of the business, they are terrible at writing decent software. Without Google, they'd be nothing in the mobile space. If for some reason they piss off Google (or Apple buys Google :biggrin, Samsung would be SOL given the current state of things.