Where did you get the idea that HTC and Sprint's are going under?
You do understand that all last year HTC was setting sales and profit records each quarter until the Apple ruling in November? And that they bounced back again this year until the US Customs embargo hit?
HTC CORP (2498:Taiwan): Financial Statements - Businessweek
As for Sprint, you are aware that that they received something on the order of $3 billion in financing to complete the Network Vision upgrade just a few months ago?
I don't think that an ICS update delay is going to tank HTC and I don't think that a Samsung screw-up is going to bury Sprint.
Did you not follow that the SGS2 ICS is a total screw up? That they are replacing phones because the update was that hosed? If you want an SGS2, our forums are full of irate owners of those.