Well, now Nokia is burning because they went with WP7, and Microsoft has outright stated that WP7 is not upgradeable to WP8. So much for the 'burning platform' eh?
I actually dont understand the problem with WP7 phones not being able to upgrade to WP8. New phones will run WP8.. WP8 can run WP7 apps. Old phones will be upgraded to WP7.8. When WP7 people get new phones they will buy a WP8 phone and run their old WP7 apps on the WP8 phone.
Sure... they wont be able to run WP8 apps on their WP7 phones. But I have a hard time believing that there wont be people developing new apps for WP7... since it dosent matter if they make them WP7 apps. They will still run on WP8.
And the last WP7 phones to be released is about now... and it is at least 4-6 months left until WP8 is released. So when it is released peoples phones will be some 3-5 months old. How often do people get new phones these days? Every 12-24 months? At least the ones I know get new phones almost every year. So if you have to run a "old" OS for 12-24 months, is that really so horrible?
I have a 2 year old HTC Desire. It still runs Android 2.3. I cant run Android 4.x specific apps on it. But most apps that is released is still release with the 2.x API. But I'll have to get a new phone if I want to use the new version of the OS and run those apps...
... Thats the exact same things as WP7 users will experience.
