There was a first running Nexus One ICS port within hours from release. Not to mention guys who made ICS run on their Nexus S phones in September before the official announcement. You can see numerous videos on youtube which are in fact real.
speaking of the G1, I saw this guy with one a few days ago and noticed that his notification bar at the top was black. I wonder if he had had a Gingerbread ROM installed.
I see. It clearly works for you and you find it useful, but I don't think it's quite the same for everyone else. Everyone I know has a job or sits right next to me in class. Family, friends, etc. Judging by posts on Facebook, it seems that the only people that use FourSquare regularly and unemployed kids I knew from high school that want everyone to know that "gettin' fresh kicks for dees bitches im kickin wit 2nite." So a bunch of imbeciles. Which is why, to me, it doesn't matter who came out with location-based services first, I see them being solely abused by retards. Clearly, others have a different experience with them.
Well, I work in an industry dominated by what's called "new media". Radio, TV, entertainment, music, journalists, artists, actors, record label people, PR people, A&Rs, event promoters, investors, graphic designers. It'd be very hard for anyone to survive in any of these roles (and much more) without heavy social media usage, including location.
Having said that, I have friends on 4SQ who are software developers, chefs, teachers, optometrists and bodybuilders. So, you know. Depends on your social circles. I don't associate with anyone from high school except one person, I have no reason to. So they aren't even on my Facebook, let alone my 4SQ. Plus, most people don't really publish their checkins to FB, so if that's all your judging it on I'd say that's a pretty inaccurate judgment.
Like any social networks, they reflect the people you know. I happen to know lots of cool people. If the only people you know that use 4SQ are "unemployed kids from high school" than, with no diss/judgement, that says more about the people you know than anything else.
I don't really follow people in entertainment on Facebook that often. Tracking where someone is at all times really doesn't scream "social" to me. Foursquare is one thing, Latitude is another.