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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
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Also.. a lot of people are yelling at Nokia for lack of apps... Even google has a very minute set of core apps that are from "google".. Youtube, Browser, Market, Email, etc. All the other Apps are from third party developers - not Google.

You cannot compare third party apps between platforms... that is entirely dependent on the developers - not the parent company. Developers will go where there are users.. it's catch-22 world in that aspect. What you *can* compare is a stock OS', and if you want, apps released officially from the Parent.

I don't think the actual "stock" OS from what I've read is causing anybody any real problems.. most of people complaints are in the apps - Ovi Store, Map software, GPS, etc. Fremantle I think everyone is pretty happy with (unless I'm wrong?)

I don't see where it mentions whether 2.1 Android has flash built-into the browser.. does it? Does the Droid? Is it Flash 9.4 or higher?

The lack of an Ovi Store, bad map software, and bad GPS could be legitimate complaints - as these are shared from Android to Maemo. Market, Google Maps, and Navigation. However, Navigation just recently hit android.. before that the navigation software of the Android sucked too.
Hmmm...I think you're right, people aren't complaining about the "stock" OS, they're complaining about the apps officially release from the parent, and in some cases the hardware. And I'm sorry, but there isn't really much of a point in saying the Navigation on android used to suck, any more than there is a point to comparing Android 2 to Maemo 6. I'd go out on a limb and say that the quality of the "core" apps is a legitimate gripe, not a could be. Hardware differentiation in smartphone is pretty subtle nowadays and while it does make a difference, it's really boiling down to the user experience which is in large part dominated by the quality of the software.