It's what I would choose to have in the iPhone, too. I think this sort of "managed multitasking" is the right answer on a mobile device.

It's amusing how similar this is to the iPhone in so many ways that, in the past, the iPhone has been criticised for.

Someone should make "Filmerscore" where you get numbers next to your name for watching DVD extras.

It's what I would choose to have in the iPhone, too. I think this sort of "managed multitasking" is the right answer on a mobile device. Oh, Microsoft have some sort of background music streaming solution planned, too, apparently. All good stuff.

It's amusing how similar this is to the iPhone in so many ways that, in the past, the iPhone has been criticised for.

So are a lot of achievements.

Someone should make "Filmerscore" where you get numbers next to your name for watching DVD extras.

DVD extras are kind of silly, though.

It would be a pint of Volvo.

Biggest "why did they do that" moment I've had with WP7S yet: Zune and the phone OS don't have a unified app store. The iPod Touch is a huge win for Apple; it's allows them to sell iPhone OS devices to people who don't or won't buy an expensive contract mobile phone. I can't understand why Microsoft rejected that angle.

Biggest "why did they do that" moment I've had with WP7S yet: Zune and the phone OS don't have a unified app store. The iPod Touch is a huge win for Apple; it's allows them to sell iPhone OS devices to people who don't or won't buy an expensive contract mobile phone. I can't understand why Microsoft rejected that angle.

I think the idea that some games are more 'properer' than others and so 'deserve' more 'gamerpoints' to be amazingly abstract, meta and messed up.

Holy shit, it looks more like an iPhone every day. It won't have copy and paste. WTF?!

That's not the only thing that makes it look like an old iPhone. Under NDA unfortunately, but suffice to say I am displeased.

There's no way I'd buy a phone without copy and paste. It's a dealbreaker.

Biggest "why did they do that" moment I've had with WP7S yet: Zune and the phone OS don't have a unified app store. The iPod Touch is a huge win for Apple; it's allows them to sell iPhone OS devices to people who don't or won't buy an expensive contract mobile phone. I can't understand why Microsoft rejected that angle.

The Zune HD2 will be the WP7's iPod Touch:

"Development for the Zune and Zune HD will continue to exist in XNA Game Studio 3.1, however, in XNA Game Studio 4.0, we're encouraging you to migrate your games over to the Windows Phone 7 Series platform."

Holy shit, it looks more like an iPhone every day. It won't have copy and paste. WTF?!

Have they been dumb enough to say that it "won't need copy and paste" yet?

I don't think it's a dealbreaker. I didn't feel the iPhone was fatally flawed without it. But I do think it's much more than a nice-to-have; I use it a lot.

I don't get it, is copy and paste a really difficult thing to implement? Why wouldn't you include it?

being one of the biggest software developers in the world

That said, I don't think it's actually technically that difficult, it's just something you'd have to design from scratch rather than using some existing code.

I saw that. I think it's fan-made though, not official?

Apps aren't simply killed off after the user stops using them, though. The platform supports "page states," which Microsoft equates to cookies on websites -- they're lightweight packages that can easily be kept in memory to preserve the look, feel, and data of an app while discarding the memory-heavy UI elements. When a user navigates away from a screen within an app, the page state is committed to memory; when it's needed again, the UI is reconstructed from the state, a process cleverly called "dehydration" and "rehydration."

subst APPLE MICROSOFT

Some might say that playing shit like Avatar for an easy 1,000GS is cheapening achievements, though.