I love how everyone who rants about missing features claims they are SO EASY to implement. Like we have a forum full of expert mobile platform coders here. Like the as*clown who was saying "a native document management application" or a "real gps application" were easily implemented...really? Do you really believe that?
Just because "other smartphones" have it, does not mean that it's trivial to add. This is a new (ok, 14 months old is still pretty new) mobile OS, and apps just came out a few months ago. These other smartphone OS's have been out for many years, so development has had time. According to my 4.8 seconds of research, Blackberry didn't even announce a native Office editor until early this year (
link), and Blackberries have been around for over 10 years. I'm sure a real GPS application is no laughing matter either.
I'm only a minor fanboy (note - NOT fanboi, cause that version of the term is just ridiculously stupid), not an Apple diehard. I'd like to see the features many people are ranting about as well, only I realize what it takes to add such things, while trying to maintain stability as the forefront of development.
Features will continue to come. And no matter what is added...even after they add MMS, C&P, fully voice-guided GPS, native editing of every document format to ever exist, HD resolution, two 14-megapixel video cameras, dolby 7.1 surround sound bluetooth audio, an IR remote control, 120dB alert volume, 7 days of battery life in full use, and 100% stability...you will STILL have people complaining about some other useless feature.
