WP7 certainly will mature and get better, but it already surpasses all other OSes for quality. If you can't see that, you aren't looking at the OS, you're looking at its appearance. Whatever the appearance is to someone, and it can be simple or elegant depending on the person, that's a matter of personal taste. Quality can be experienced throughout the system, though. Fast and clean is one example of the quality of WP7. It is one of, if not the actual, fastest booting smartphone OSes ever created. And is one of the fastest responding ever created.
Quality you are talking about, seems more of restricting the OS and limiting options to the end user. For the remaining part of your argument you can find the answers down (Speed/fast/lag) in Z33 respond.
important? What is so integral and important about changing font size? No considerable OS has this built in.
So, what is so integral and important about: Changing ringtone,background themes or even the language? I can go on and on.
Seriously font size is an important feature, being able to decrease the font or increase it helps not only saving you from wearing glasses(35+) ,but also to put more text in small place. Like saving you the affords from scrolling up and down (I may add here, right or left). I'll not even start talking about "No considerable OS has this built in." its feels so wrong and need to be revised!
...for that customization you sacrifice quality. You get lag, you get force closes, you get a poorly pieced together OS that you're expected to piece together.
Poor coding and I will also add, poor methodology leads to sacrifice in quality. Implementing features and enhancing them with stability in mind leads to quality not the otherwise!
so, android is allowed to lag relentlessly on a dual core but WP7 isn't allowed to set a requirement of two year old easy to obtain hardware to make their phones the smoothest on the market? There's no software issues. I suppose if you dont utilize either of 2 of the 4 most visited sites online then you are missing out on a small aspect of a still outstanding operating system
Android , WP7 and the other OS's shouldn't be allowed to lag at all, especially with powerful hardware as their base.
Honestly, the "2 year hardware" argument doesn't make your argument any stronger. iPhone 1 was using an under-clocked cpu with only 412 MHz and wasn't lagging at all (more than 5 years old hardware). Iphone 4, is using 800mhz (underclocked cpu) with greater resolution (960 × 640). For WP7 min requirement for cpu is snapdragon (Mostly are 1Ghz+ and lowest available are in 800's mhz) with advanced structure going inside its core. For your information, supporting a certain type of SOC's is easier than supporting everything on the Market.
So, I am telling you drop the argument around the hardware, it is meaningless in this case.
nokia is an outstanding software and hardware company. They simply didn't want to be a second rate android when they could be part of something new and amazing.
I think Nokia moved into WP7 because they become an "ego-company" with the "ego-Elop"; There is even someone in Nokia posted in his blog, that he explained to Elop why adapting Meego is easier and faster and even cost efficiency than WP7. Of course by now you should know that Elop with his "Ego-Elop-Lism" just can't admit he is wrong and moved forward with WP7.
