nasellok
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The Op is right, why is there such a huge gap in basic core os function and features? Its not hardware as the icon and 1520 run the same CPU and gpu as the top android phones. I'm not talking about apps but the os itself.
Now, WP8.1 isn't out yet, but from what we know about it - it looks like we can probably make an assumption that after 18 months, windows phone 8 hasn't gotten a lot of new features. Nokia has done their best to bring them to WP8, but its not a huge amount. I think what we are looking at with MS's evolution, is that they are adding features in huge chunks. Look at 7->8, and now 8->8.1. If we look at what 8.1 brings, I think we are looking at a monumental upgrade - sort of similar if Android jumped from 2.1 -> 4.0 ish upgrade (2010 - 2013). The biggest difference being that people on the original 8.0 phones, will be able to run 8.1 with no issues, whereas all the Android Phones that were running 2.1-2.2, etc, got screwed, and if you didn't get a new phone, you were forever stuck on an old outdated OS (that is unless you rooted, and installed Roms, which we all know lag the device so bad you could hear it crying from the inside.
My point of all this - MS, while slow to get on feature parity with other OS's, seems to be doing it right. You will eventually be able to run the same app on your desktop computer that you run on your cell phone - that coupled with the fact that your desktop computer also runs any software you could possibly need (unless its Windows RT, which we all know has its own set of limitations). I do however wish that MS would build some of the great Windows 8.1 features into Windows Phone - particularly running side by side apps, and full file explorer, but im hardly going to consider them deal breakers. Ive been using my Icon since launch day, and Ive never even thought of trying to use mobile powerpoint to create a presentation. Ill use my Computer, cause that's what its for.