Will being an ICS early adopter be more of a headache than a blessing?

[psionic11]

So let's say official ICS has come to the Note.

Sure, the Note is snappier. The most basic functions work -- calls, texting, taking pictures, surfing the web. I suppose the browser will support Flash. There had better be stock music and movie players at least. FM radio?

And I'm expecting Samsung software will have been updated - email, S Memo, S Planner, Samsung Apps and Media Hub (who uses those anyway?). Will Samsung's photo and movie editor work?

But the real question is, what about ALL those other apps we use on a daily basis?

Productivity -- will Docs to Go, Skitch, Evernote, and other 3rd party calendar/email apps? Yahoo and Gmail? Alarms? Navigation?

Google products -- Google Earth, Google Sky Map, Google Maps, goggles, Places/Latitude, Youtube. I'd expect all Google products to have polished ICS versions, including Search and Voice actions...

Games -- I'm sure the Angry Birds, Words with Friends, and dozens of other popular gaming apps will have ICS versions. But what about HD games? Will MC3, Riptide/Shinerunner, Asphalt6, Shadowgun, Nova, etc. have versions? Probably not. How can Gameloft finally release Order and Chaos HD for the Note on Gingerbread, what about Note on ICS?

S Pen apps -- Omnisketch, Zen brush, Hello Chalk/Pencil/Crayon

Music and media apps -- most likely many music player apps will have ICS versions (Pandora, Last FM, TuneIn radio, PowerAmp,), but what of other custom musician apps. Caustic, Jasuto, RD3, Uloops? The Equalizer Apps many of us use to compensate for the Note's audio...

Then there's Netflix, Ebay, Amazon store, ES file explorer, Astro. Go Launcher and other launchers, Personal Assistant (Android's Siri), Skype, Whatsapp.

E-readers. Will our e-books library be preserved?

THE LIST IS ENDLESS.

Will being an ICS early adopter be more of a headache than a blessing?

 

[psionic11]

Put it this way, will all the things that you do daily with your Note be possible on ICS?

Probably not.

Can you do without the ones that won't work with ICS?

Will we be able to choose NOT to upgrade, or to upgrade later, after everyone else tests the waters first?

 

[jambamkin]

Whenever ICS gets released for note almost all apps will be ICS compatible. You won't be an early adopter people who bought the Galaxy Nexus have that privilege.

I have ICS on my Desire HD and only maybe two apps that I deem essential did not work at first, they have both since been upgraded

You will also be able to decline the update should you wish, but I don't understand why anyone would.

 

[sb020397]

It's not there yet unless you can handle some lag like when we first got the notes. Also Touchwiz must go. Why ruin a awesome looking gui with that!

 

[prettedda]

I have been running ICS CM9 on a Nook for a month. I've not had any problems with apps except a hiccup with calendar syncing. I use it mainly as an ereader so have not used a lot of productivity apps but do not expect aprblem.

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[psionic11]

Cool, that's good to hear then that most apps work with ICS. After my rant, I stepped back and thought about it, and realized that there doesn't seem to be an app uproar for the Nexus world.

I know Caustic and a few other custom apps I have probably wont be ICS friendly, but it's good to hear that the majority of normal apps work fine.

Crisis averted. We now resume to our regularly scheduled program...

 

[joshnichols189]

The nexus has been out since November. Do you really think none of these apps work on ICS?

Edit: sorry, just saw your realization up there ^

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