I am getting really sick and tired of all this ROM crap in the smartphone world. Today's smartphones are basically small computers with a phone program running on them. Manufacturers, carriers and developers need to start treating them like a computer.
For example, you go into a store and buy a computer. It has a designated OS on it (most likely Windows or Mac). You can put what ever future OS on it you want as long as it meets the minimum hardware requirements for the new OS. All of your old programs still work(for the most part) because the new OS is backwards compatible.
Now onto what to do with the smartphones. Manufactures build a phone with a specific set of hardware. This hardware may or may not support different OSs. If it can support multiple OSs they will probably choose to market just one. They send the phone to the carrier with the carriers apps preinstalled and ready for the end user. When an upgraded OS comes out the customer will have a couple of choices to get the new OS. 1) purchase a new phone from a carrier or 2) purchase and/or download the new OS (free in terms of Android, paid for WinMo. The carrier can keep a set of apps on their website hidden behind a customer login for the customer who has upgraded to get the carrier apps to reinstall.
Doing this will stop all of the bullshit going on right now with people waiting to get the latest releases and people hacking phones to get an OS to put on another phone. This will free up developers to write some more kick ass apps instead of trying to hack the OS.
This will really put the carriers on equal footing in terms of hardware and really make them compete on their network.
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