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Originally Posted by whydidnt
It does seem strange, that after 18 months we basically have a new home screen, menu and some bigger screen elements to show for all their work. I've mentioned before, but I seriously wonder how small the WM team is. Otherwise, what are they doing, and why after all this time is the mobile browser so bad that most OEMs feel the need to include Opera in the Rom? Finally, let me get my ongoing rant about the hardware in. Even the highest end devices only have 512 MB of Rom. why? How come Apple & Nokia can manage 32 GB of Flash memory, yet WM is state on 512 MB?? Is there some problem with the OS that prevents them from competing? Or, are they just cheap?
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OS - yeah really sad, how little is there for 18 months of work. Unless there are only one or two developers in the "team" - in this case it's not "that" bad. Especially considering that HTC (a hardware manufacturer) did more, better and more in depth UI changes for the whole OS in their Manila (TF3D) interface in same 18 months than WM team.
Flash - just cheap HW manufacturers. HTC Diamond 1 had 4GB of flash, HTC Advantage had 8GB microdrive in version 1 and 16GB flash in version 2 so it's not a technical problem. But it does look that the smaller "level 1 flash" is usually much faster and thus more expensive than the "level 2"...