The international version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, themost popular Android handset last year, will receive the ICS update on March 10 (tomorrow). All the major Android OEMs have promised updates to the their most popular phones. It's not happening as fast as users would like but it's a bit misleading to say 95% of the market have been "excluded" from those versions.
It is fair to say that Google hasn't solved the more difficult issues in the Android ecosystem, but it is totally unreasonable to say "nothing changed".
Even if you discount the updates that are about to start (as Fruntal highlights), the next generation of Android phones has been completely transformed by ICS. That is clearly the low-hanging fruit, but it is still real, meaningful change.
Interesting, how pointing this out does not go well there.
Really, just compare numbers of iOS5 and ICS on the devices in users hands. Both came out about the same time, but difference is immense.
Of course, there are real and valid reasons why it is so with ICS, but at the end we still have what we have.
It's not even really fair to call it change when nothing changed and nothing is about to change for almost every Android user.