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The thing this misses for me is what it can do and what it does do for most people.

Smartphones are now mass market which means that a lot of people buying and using them aren't engaging in a lot of config, customisation and so on, that 90% of what they do and how they work is how it comes out of the box.

Only about 7% of Android devices are using ICS 6 months after launch. By comparison 80% of iOS customers using iOS5 12 months on. What that means is that what's in iOS6.0 is probably way more relevant to your average iOS user than what's in ICS is to your average Android user.

I've not seen anyone say ICS isn't good, the issue seems to be that it's not what most people experience when the use Android.



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