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It's hard to compare getting ICS on legacy phones to getting iOS 6 on your iPhone 4S. Of course, first gen Android devices aren't going to be able to run ICS, but neither will first gen iOS devices. iOS 6 is not going to be on the original iPad, the original iPhone or the iPhone 3G.

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I bought a Galaxy SII last October - about a week or so before the Galaxy Nexus was released - and here I am without an ICS. T-Mobile JUST announced support for it, saying it would be here within a week. The only update I have received was a patch update, with minor UI changes.

Even depending upon CyanogenMod has failed me. T-Mobile loves getting non-standard devices and then not releasing drivers that could help boost their own popularity - likely for IP reasons. I have owned dev phones in the past, and this was my first consumer device, and coincidentally the first Android device that I could not easily unlock and update on my own.

No, you can't compare a first gen Android device, but you sure as hell can compare a device more powerful than some netbooks.

You'll have ICS before iPhone users have iOS6.

My coworker just purchased a new Android phone. It's on Android 2.x. Meanwhile, the iPhone 3GS is about to get iOS6.

Chances are iOS6 will have a higher percentage of iOS users than ICS of Android users after the first day or so.

Chances are that iOS 6 already has a higher percentage than ICS today ;)

None of the Apple devices that you mentioned are sold at retail anymore. How many Android devices that are being sold in stores can't get access to the latest operating system update?

The Galaxy Note still ships with 2.3. That's not just available but pretty high profile.

A quick look round a random sample from one of the big high street dealers here in the UK shows that a fair number are still shipping with 2.3.

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