It's completely different! Andy Rubin said quite awhile ago that we would see ICS in October/November. They met their promise. Before then, he revealed that the next Android version would be called ICS. There had been communication by Google to the public, whereas in the case of Apple, absolutely nothing of substance was said about iOS or the new iProduct.
It's also different in the sense that, we know absolutely everything about the Nexus and ICS, aside from the release date, and we knew it when they said we would know it by. We know what we are getting, we just don't know when we are going to get it. And even so, I'll still say that it has only been 5 weeks since the announcement, which is nothing in terms of tech, and if you were going to base the release of the Galaxy Nexus on when the Nexus S was available, we might actually get it sooner (Nexus S released on 12/16/10, we may see the GNex 12/8/11, and we knew of ICS/GNex in Oct, the Nexus S was revealed in November last year)
And yes, that is Apple's fault. They knew what everyone was expecting long before their unveiling. They knew that the phony news stories were on every major tech site, and cable news outlets were pretty much stating the iPhone 5 as a fact. They could have at least curbed expectations by leaking bits ahead of time, so as to not lead to the letdown. They could have made any type of statement saying any rumors were false. They did no such thing. They let the hype build up.
People bought it, yes. People will buy anything they put out because they have an extreme cult following. But you cannot dispute the amount of negativity people had after the press conference. Nobody was ultra excited over it. CNET, one of the biggest Apple cheerleading sites, was writing about how it was a disappointment. Hell, Apple's own stock fell afterwards, and it has NEVER done that the day of any announcement.
Would I have appreciated Verizon giving us a firm date in the first place? You're damn right. But it has been 5 weeks. Tell me, how is this any worse than when any company out of Taiwan shows off something at CES in January or MWC in February and says that Europe/Asia will see it in March...and then the US doesn't get it until July/August? That being said, I'm not entirely ready to crucify Verizon just yet, even though every other poster on this forum seems to be doing so. Yeah, it's probably going to be a month and a half of waiting from the time of announcement to when we see it here, but would you have preferred not knowing about it until now?
Based on last year's timing of the announcement of the Nexus S vs this year's timing of the GNex, Google actually gave us a bit of an early reveal if you think about it. Everyone should have been happy about that, and everyone should be absolutely thrilled that Verizon is finally getting a Nexus device, which will show up exactly when everyone expected, a year from when the last Nexus came out, but instead everybody is miserable and complaining. That is, until it actually comes out and everybody loves it with the LTE speeds, anyway. SMH.
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