[citation][nom]bystander[/nom]Win 7 phones have been out a lot longer than you may realize. Just because the Lumia line was only out a few months, doesn't mean they was the only ones out.Anyways, I don't see anything wrong or amiss about selling a Win 7 phone, and now offering Win 8 phones several months later. The Win 7 phones still do everything they did when they were bought. Just because there is now a Win 8 phone doesn't make the Win 7 phone less of a product than when it was bought.I find it odd how so many people some how think a Win 7 phone becomes useless once Win 8 arrives. That's like calling your 2010 F150 useless, because you can buy 2012 models now.[/citation]
Yeah, but what people mean (or I hope they mean), is that before knowing that the next version would have had native apps incompatible with the previous, you bought thinking that your apps were going to steadily increase even if you didn't get all the new OS version features. Instead, with the incompatibility of WP8 apps on WP7, the WP7 users are now all but assured that they won't see many new apps for their phone if at all, once WP8 comes out, because developers will focus on the new. Debatable anyway, since if I was a developer, I'd do both a WP7 and WP8 version of my app, to broaden the user base and generate more talk.