WP7 vs. iPhone vs. Android vs. WM6.5 vs. webOS vs. Maemo - THE comparison!

[Sethos II]

Here's my comparison between WP7, iPhone OS, Android and WM6.5, webOS and Maemo!
It's been about time that somebody did it.
It's a work in progress, I will add and update things.


This chart is meant to be free from any opinion, it shall only contain the pure facts.

There's only one simple rule: No hacking! No unsupported, unallowed, illegal methods or any methods that are a breach of licence agreements.



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[Ganondolf]

ndrive and co-pilot are available to iphone too

 

[Sethos II]

Thanks, will be added.

 

[Kloc]

They have stated that copy and paste is currently being implemented now in WP7.

 

[Spike15]

They have stated that copy and paste is currently being implemented now in WP7.

Source ?

 

[Sethos II]

It will be added to the chart when it becomes available.
(sorry, but I don't believe it will become available soon after launch - I will, however, add it, if the PROMISE to make it available)

 

[Ganondolf]

Source ?

microsoft sent a statement saying that they listened to what people have said and are looking how to put a great copy and paste in wp7.

They did not say if it will be available at launch (probably not).

 

[Kloc]

It will be added to the chart when it becomes available.
(sorry, but I don't believe it will become available soon after launch - I will, however, add it, if the PROMISE to make it available)

We will probably have to wait until closer to launch to see how far they've gotten on that.

 

[Sethos II]

Of course. Any facts or at least promised features will be added, but I want to keep the chart free from speculation.

 

[Shasarak]

microsoft sent a statement saying that they listened to what people have said and are looking how to put a great copy and paste in wp7.

They did not say if it will be available at launch (probably not).

Source?

 

[Kloc]

Source?

I was posted on Engadget a while back go search for it.

 

[Sethos II]

This is my assessment:

Disclaimer: This coloured chart reflects my opinion, of course you can have your own. Please, don't try to discuss with me about my opinion, I don't want to do so. I will form my opinion based on trying things myself and research.

 

[Kloc]

This is my assessment:

Disclaimer: This coloured chart reflects my opinion, of course you can have your own. Please, don't try to discuss with me about my opinion, I don't want to do so. I will form my opinion based on trying things myself and research.

Hmm there's something strange about that chart. One of those columns just doesn't look like the other three. Wonder if options were made to reflect that?

 

[Sethos II]

When I made the chart, I tried to find as many categories as possible. I did not think about opinions, I just tried to collect facts.

The coulouring was done AFTER the original chart. Thus, the chart itself is in no way influenced by my opinion.
If you think categories are missing, please tell me! I want as many facts as possible, regardless of which OS they favor.

That said, I did do the colouring according to my opinion. I did not color one column after another, thus I also did not deliberately colour one of them with more green than others.

I think my methods are as balanced as they can possibly be.

If you have another opinion, feel free to colour the chart differently!
(there is no copyright )

 

[Sethos II]

Again: Feel free to colour the chart differently, to show your opinions!
Please don't flame each others' opinions! State your own opinions by colouring the chart, but fon't flame!

Also, if you think categories are missing, please tell me!

 

[Sethos II]

Anyone with knowledge want to add Symbian?

I hear Nokia plan to release a few great devices, but I don't know enough about Symbian, unfortunately.

 

[Kloc]

I think it all depends on your view of each item. I don't think most of them can be shown as pure green or red, except maybe on the items that either have it or they don't. For example you may say full multitasking on OS is green but what comes with that? More apps may bog the system down or make the battery not last as long. I know on my Touch Pro2 I always kill an app from the task manager when I close it because I don't want it to effect anything like that. So in someone else's eyes full multitasking may not be a good thing. And differences in opinion can go either way on most of those. So yes that is your opinion and I respect it but I'll stick to the chart without color for a less biased view of the OS's.

 

[Spike15]

For example you may say full multitasking on OS is green but what comes with that?

You know what, I really cannot believe that people on this forum are even having this discussion.

UNIX was a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system RELEASED IN 1969.

That's 40 YEARS AGO.

So if you try and take the M$/Apple side on this argument, it's tantamount to admitting that technology should take a 40 year step backwards, and that you honestly believe that the development of timesharing/multi-tasking, which reinvented computing and made it accessible to every person, was a bad thing.

 

[Sethos II]

@Kloc

Wasn't that disclaimer big enough? Didn't I say it's purely MY OPINION?!
What the f*** is so hard to understand about that?!

I want multitasking, that's why it's green.
I want customization, that's why it's green.
I hate iTunes, that's why it's red.

And so on. If you have a different opinion, you can make your own colours!

I encourage you to state your own opinion (for example taky my chart and change the colours), but mine is NOT up for discussion!

The coloured chart represents my own, very personal opinion! NOTHING ELSE.

That is why I do not post it in the first post of this thread. The chart in the first post is NOT coloured, because it is FREE FROM OPINIONS.
Everybody is able to take the NON-COLOURED chart and from his own opinion.

 

[Kloc]

You know what, I really cannot believe that people on this forum are even having this discussion.

UNIX was a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system RELEASED IN 1969.

That's 40 YEARS AGO.

So if you try and take the M$/Apple side on this argument, it's tantamount to admitting that technology should take a 40 year step backwards, and that you honestly believe that the development of timesharing/multi-tasking, which reinvented computing and made it accessible to every person, was a bad thing.

Yes and Apple and MS's OS's are both multitasking and multithreaded OS's. Just beause they won't allow everyone to use it doesn't mean it can't. Non multitasking systems are something like old DOS. You go to print a document and you have to wait until the entire thing is printed before you can do something else. These systems are nothing like that. They are trying to innovate how multitasking is used in order to have effeicency on their devices.