but this requires user interaction... edit: please don't get me wrong!!! in general I'm on par with your opinion to have choices... choices are good. but i don't want to have a half finished thing.. for example think on the backgrounds of the homescreens. if they are in portrait you can't make such nice effects like a panorama over all 4 screens. there are so many things to think about.
i think some members here didn't react in a way you would have expected. i thinks, that's because we know how it works with maemo. It's not like symbian, that we get a device which we can't change at all.
if we would like (and I know there is at least one progger, who would like to have ASR) we could implement that feature. Personally i think that there are pros and cons about ASR. in some situation it is usefull, but in others it would going on my nerves so that i could throw the device on a near wall... ;-)