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While this is interesting data, I think that it is far too early to be judging the adoption of ICS, especially against Gingerbread. On a technical level, ICS i
by fpgeek 15y ago
While this is interesting data, I think that it is far too early to be judging the adoption of ICS, especially against Gingerbread.
On a technical level, ICS is a much more demanding upgrade (e.g updated graphics drivers that are pushed harder). You can see this with Cyanogenmod, which is well behind their Gingerbread pace, not to mention the bumpy road most (all?) of the official updates have had so far (e.g. Nexus S upgrade halted, XOOM and Transformer upgrades late, Transformer Prime has had a nearly continuous stream of fixes, including one yesterday, etc.)
To take it from the another angle, we already have more public commitments for ICS upgrades than we ever had with Gingerbread. A big part of that is that more people care this time around, so there has been a lot more pressure on manufacturers to disclose their plans, but I'd still argue that is an encouraging sign.
To me, it feels more like ICS has been in a public beta since the Galaxy Nexus release, rather than true, official release. My hunch is that Google just hasn't wanted to admit that. In any case, I don't think we're going to know how ICS is really doing for a while.