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#74
Originally Posted by shinogami View Post
I don't get the mentality of people who think something is obsolete just because it can't run the latest version of some software, as if the item suddenly loses all functionality. Also shame on MS marketing for calling the update 7.8 instead of 8.0. Why did they do it? It's like they were asking for bad press. "WP8 coming to existing phones, only features missing are the ones not supported by the hardware". Isn't that what's happening, except it's called WP7.8?

Also, I used to think that blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo were very biased, but last night I made the error of reading something from cnet. Holy ****, not only are they extremely biased, but they even seem to spread disinformation deliberately. I can't help thinking that what they're doing is illegal, and I'd like to see Nokia suing their asses.
Microsoft FUD is working on you actually.

The features missing are not merely hardware related. The windows core has changed, it's not changing for WP7.8.
Part of the reason for this was so that porting Windows 8 apps to WP8 is easier. Porting apps to 7.8 will remain the same.
What that means is WP7.8 is not going to get WP8 compiled apps even if the hardware supports it. The developer would have to target it specifically and most will most likely not bother. WP7.8 is a legacy device now.
 

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