Yes. Yes I do.
Hey, I was
trying to be nice.
Plus, I don't think most folks pay attention to how things got to here - once the embers die, people only care about the final result. Anyhoo...
By now we've all seen the new Sense vid suggesting we can run the new beans on our Evos - I'm just finger-crossing that that's true and we're not short of the Desire HD's ram to really do this - and Gingerbread - right.
But - I'm still betting on my (possibly wild) predictions that we're getting all of it and maybe sooner than later.
Samsung just bragged that they hit their target of 10 million Galaxy-class phones sold, 4 million in North America alone.
Were HTC to release Gingerbread + new Sense early in our market - say, on the HTC Thunderbolt (Verizon) to show innovation and on our venerable Evos (to show on-going support), while US Samsung customers are still waiting on a Froyo release and many still waiting on a fix to their GPS woes, I think that would constitute a marketing coup that would be heard all of the way around the world.
HTC innovates and not only is HTC not stoopid - HTC is mighty smart.
The first two handsets with vendor-supported Froyo were the Nexus One and the Evo. If they get Gingerbread to us, therefore in alignment with the Nexus S while the rest of that series still awaits Froyo, there will be no face saving for others.
The pattern of Nexus_whatever first, HTC next, in advanced Android support - others would only be able to purchase spin control to contain the damage.