Unless you're a customer of AT&T or Verizon (which I admit, are a lot), you likely:
1. Choose your own handset and ignore the carrier-provided ones
2. Purchase it from a number of quality retailers
3. I'm not too happy with Samsung phones, but they are popular among people in the group I'm talking about
So I sort of agree with you, that Samsung's not going to roll out Android 4 very fast. But their loyalty to US carriers is almost certainly dying.
Unless you're a customer of AT&T or Verizon (which I admit, are a lot), you likely:
1. Choose your own handset and ignore the carrier-provided ones
2. Purchase it from a number of quality retailers
3. I'm not too happy with Samsung phones, but they are popular among people in the group I'm talking about
So I sort of agree with you, that Samsung's not going to roll out Android 4 very fast. But their loyalty to US carriers is almost certainly dying.