Yup...again with tech geeks thinking their knowledge about a particular subject applies to everyone. If you polled 100 random people on the street with Android phones, I'd be shocked if a quarter of them could correctly identify which version of Android their phone was running.
that's cuz all Android phoens are covered up with so much bloat. I usually identify Gingerbread by the green icons up top compared to Froyo. However, you wouldn't be able to tell with say Touchwiz on top.
Anyway, you may be right. A lot of people don't know ICS, but amongst my non tech geek friends like my gf and other people who at least follow gadgets to an extent and do tech consulting, they know "the new Android" as ICS. They keep asking why I get the SGS2 over the Nexus because I won't be using the new Android software, etc.
What I'm saying is there's definitely different levels of tech geeks. There's ones like us who know all about ROMs and mod the shit out of their phones. Heck no offense to AT, but what I was referring to was the XDA folk really. I don't think everyone here is a crazy modder. Then there's those who keep their phone stock but stay on top of tech news and will look for updates the instant they are out. Officlal updates at least. Say if iOS 5.0 dropped, they would install day 1 or week 1. That's probably like my gf and a few other friends. However about these somewhat technologically aware users, they think that ICS means Nexus right now. There's NO OTHER ICS out there to them.
And that's the problem. Not everyone wants that 4.65" phone and so they think Android is doomed because no one will get ICS unless they get a brand new phone. I don't know. It's kinda disheartening that ICS is taking forever to roll out.