I keep seeing this "i don't see anything groundbreaking and we're still behind the competition".. I don't see it the same way I guess.. We are behind the competition now and we are taking a HUGE step forward. Leaps forward really. While people see it as "we are still missing this feature or that feature" are not seeing it as "it took apple HOW many years to get all its features, and it took WP8 (since it was rewritten from ground up so basically new OS, can't count WP7) only 2 years to get to the same point"
I would love to see a solid piece by WPC of a full feature compare (after WP8.1 is announced and we have all the facts about WP8.1 from MS direct and not rumor mills and leaks) between WP8.1, iOS 7 and Android 4.4 Not counting rumors of upcoming iOS8 or whatever candy Google finds laying around in a drawer somewhere. Maybe this could be a mobile nations get together all around.. Compare BB10, WP8.1, iOS7 and Android 4.4 and list all the features one OS has that the others do or don't have.. and then do a comparison of, is this a feature for the sake of a feature, or is it a valid, real necessity feature. Then we can get a real grasp of how far behind we really are, or aren't.
I did a search for "iOS 7 feature list" and got one that says 200+ new features in iOS 7:
iOS 7: Complete List Of 200+ New Features
The first 20 are "new look / feel / etc" so I wouldn't even count these as WP has it's own look and feel and these can't be compared.
Then some are Mac specific, and iTunes radio, things that Nokia or MS provide already (Nokia Mix Radio? Xbox Music.. etc)
The control center was added in iOS7.. and we are getting the same thing... only missing (or so we think right now) a slider for brightness controls.
AirDrop is new? that's basically NFC... already have it.
Updated Siri... have to wait on Cortana but we should have all that and more.
TouchID... ehh.. not really a needed phone feature...
I could go on.