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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
I also love the fact that I have yet to wipe+reinstall my iPhone software and configuration, despite something like 6 updates across two different devices (the 2G and the 3G). I've never had a mobile device that upgraded and migrated so cleanly before.
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100% agree with you Janak - after many years and many many WM devices, I have largely migrated over to iPhone 3G and very much looking forward to v3.0 in summer.
I think the answer is in the bewildering array of WM devices and widespread independent changes in hardware - with the various bolt on interfaces that hardware manufacturers are being forced to add in order to compete with the simple but effective iPhone interface.
This is all about compromise - keeping control of hardware and software may seem to some as a draconian measure, but I for one would have accepted it, if I could have had the iPhone 'model' developed by WM years ago witout the compromised design we now have!
I have had my iPhone since early december and am already on my 3rd ROM update (2.21) - and another significant one is on the way. WM manufacturers (including HTC) churn out so many 'disposable' models and variations so quickly now they have clearly decided that ROM upgrades will only ever be offered where unavoidable - if at all. It just isn't worth their while!!
Something needs to change as WM ad their hardware manufacturers appear to be building themselves into a blind branch of the evolutionary ladder - extinction could come quickly!