"So many times"... Can you point at such a review? Because I don't think such a pre-ICS review exists, whether Gruber wrongly claims so or not. Every prior An

"So many times"... Can you point at such a review? Because I don't think such a pre-ICS review exists, whether Gruber wrongly claims so or not. Every prior Android review has been full of asterisks and disclaimers. Most tended to be negative. Sure, they talked about the positives (and there always have been positives), and they talked about the benefits over its Android predecessors, but I've never seen one that openly held it as the leader. Until now. I think it's going to take a while for some people to realize where Android has come from and where we are today. The game has completely changed, and the dated narrative is gone. When I first equipped up with a G1, there were almost no apps, and the few that existed tended to be horrendous. The performance and usability of the device was terrible. But I knew where it was going. Then I got a Nexus One and it improved some aspects of the platform, but I was still left out in the cold for a lot of things: No angry birds. A terrible market. No Skype. No Netflix. And on and on. iPhone-only apps appeared for mainstream services and products and organizations. Today I have a Galaxy S II. It isn't perfect, but the experience with 2.3.4 is pretty damn good. I have Netflix, and Hulu, and endless games and countless top-rated apps (some of which are starting to lead on Android). This is a device I would recommend to a layman. And all of the above was the foundation on which Android captured 55% of the market. And ICS only improves that n-degrees more? Incredible. If Android got such acceptance and loyalty before, this is quite incredible really.