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2012-06-21 , 18:42
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#104
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Cue... you make a point of Adobe AIR and Unity3D missing from WP7, but they're also missing from MeeGo and Maemo.

It doesn't lessen your statements about WP7 - both of those missing affects me directly as a programmer and as a user.
because they are legacy/dead platforms too. * quickly runs away*

No but honestly they are to most commercial entities. One silver lining they have though; at least they are open in comparison to WP7 and I don't mean open source, I know there are binary blobs, I mean at least you can freely develop apps and side load apps so community made apps will still flourish and distribute better.

Originally Posted by Maemomd View Post
iOS 5 was equivalent to 7.8...watered down...also, firmware updates ARE promised.

Android is a POS fragmented OS...I remember waiting for the updates until I finally rooted and cianogened it, even then it was lagged out. ICS will be delivered to certain phones, during the exact same time the next version will be released for the new phones. Laggy crap.
It was still iOS 5 though it missed some things, if you think that is not going to happen with first gen WP8 phones in future then you have too much faith. WP7.8 is not it's the most severe type of fragmentation.

Android did this already, it was called the "Android Update Alliance"

At the present, Google and the partners are announcing that devices will receive Android updates for 18 months after launch
From here:
http://www.carrypad.com/2011/05/12/g...ts-about-time/

And they did but it doesn't mean it would be a simultaneous release without delay. Doesn't mean your WP8 updates would not be delayed. It's the exact same promise of Android.

What you are referring to is a simultaneous update rollout. MS promised a simultaneous update rollout with WP7, it never kept it either. The carriers blamed MS and MS blamed carriers in the end. It was also partly why OTA updates did not exist on WP7. MS have made no such promise for WP8 now.
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