Not a MS spokesperson but if intelligence serves us correctly what we should understand that MS is trying to build us an OS that we can be proud of and it's not like we're out here alone, there's plenty of competition. As a result MS is trying to give us the most features it can in comparison to IOS and Android. With that there will be complications in the beginning but with what users are reporting from different devices around the world, just take in that when all is well and right with MS's WP OS how jealous will the IOS and Android users be??? I don't have WP8.1 or the update to 8.1 as yet but with all that I'm reading I can't wait til I do get it, because as I see it the longer I take to get the WP8.1 Upgrade the closer the OS will be to bug fixes,performance updates and feature upgrades. So though I have a 2 yr old device right now with what it has on WP8 alone compared to what the BBZ10's, GS4/5's, Iphone 4/5's that my workmates have right now, I have the BEST of the lot!!! I get more information by looking at my screen ALONE than they do from theirs. When I get WP8.1 and put the various wallpapers I'm thinking of using it will again BLOW them away from a visual point of view as well. Just here loving the WP8 more and more, but it's just the wait that's hard especially being notified each day of some NEW trick that the WP8.1 GDR1 is bringing to the table each week. If GDR1 is doing all of this what will GDR2 do to these phones???