I've seen the uptick in apps, but I've also seen it in the form of totally useless pieces of crap - so here's to hoping that more key 'tentpole' apps make an appearance.
As for OTA updates, oh, you mean the OTA update that's still not available for my Xoom, which has now taken much longer than I was waiting for Nodo? :hmm:
Or you mean the OTA update for my Milestone that came, hmm, when was it...
... I'll stop now :sneaky:
I have no problems with PC-based updates, it's infrequent enough and besides, there's a fair to middling chance that you might need to be beside one anyway.
I am positive on the overall experience, but the Zune service (which I like) isn't fully consistent despite the time they've had to work on it. And while Metro is clean in the media player, it's not complete by any stretch of the imagination and I do wish for a lot of the small pieces of coolness than the Zune HD brought to the table. (I actually only bought the HD when I moved over to WP7 as before that there was no point. I was very surprised to be pretty impressed at a player I'd completely ignored for 2 years)
I only look at stuff when they ship so I have no idea how much of this Mango addresses. I hope they do. The platform is rock solid right now, unlike the utterly crud iPhone 3G-3GS-4 I've never had to reset my radio stack, ever, on any of my Windows Phones. And while apps do crash I've not had to turn off the phone to recover from such errors so far. Handset build quality is also on another planet from the iUniverse - my oldest WP7 phone, the Omnia 7, has been uncased from day one and still is blemish-free: Good luck having the same experience on any iPhone, especially if it's been dropped a couple of times...
Mediawise, the huge advantage of Zune over the iUniverse for me is that I'm still free to do with my media what I like and store it where I like without Zune needing to be at the centre of it: iTunes can't take up library updates outside of it, Zune has no issues. So it lives happily on the network with an HTPC running optimal software for that task, a desktop with a pro sound card, etc without problems. And I still get playcount syncing - which is what I wanted all along and what made me stick for so long to Apple wares.
I really wish Microsoft would work on the marketing though: We can't go around saying "oh people in the sales channel undersell it". It's natural - its iPhone uber alles right now. Microsoft now has a firm grip on the tech and the user experience, they need just as firm a grip on marketing - it's just as important. And they've been criminally incompetent in that area, especially in comparison to Apple. With Gorillaman in charge though, the failing at marketing begins at the top... and the pessimist in me thinks it won't get any better.
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