True, but is it Nokia's fault they were first to the market with this concept? Perhaps others will appear in the future and this discussion can take on a perspective from a more even playing field.

Fair enough. And I can't answer your last question, but I have to believe that it would almost be unreasonable to think that there aren't devs out there right now trying to find ways to optimize performance on the platform. Only time will tell and I guess we will see when Chinook is eventually released into the wild.

igor - I do agree that a lot of times these things degenerate into useless debates (and believe me, I've been in my share of them having been a Linux and Mac user for many years) and are generally unproductive. Most usually take on the futility of trying to fill up the Grand Canyon by throwing one brick at a time into it. But hopefully they eventually settle into a measured and constructive debate. I'm still holding out hope for this one.

Criticism can be constructive and I generally have no issues with it as long as it is valid. But defamation (read: unfairly judging a product's merits against those of other platforms against which it was never meant to compete) is where I (and others as well, I suspect) begin to have a problem.