Asha Platform 1.0 is a **bleep** ????

Hello ,
Is this new nokia asha software platform 1.0 is really a **bleep** ????? And developers say thats its true and the os is just **bleep** made out of **bleep**.I am commenting this way because i got this kind of replies when i actually contacted few app developers.
Dont know why nokia is making such **bleep** OS and naming it newly , when there is nothing in it ! 
Excluding whatsapp, I contacted few app developers like Hike,Line etc etc.(Many more but named the top ones )
I contacted Hike on the availability of the app for asha 501 and their reply was like "There are difficulties in the OS of ahsa 501 and thats the reason they are not even planning to make the app ! [***AS OF NOW]. If you want o confirm this just contact hike.
Next is,I contacted LINE app regarding the audio messages for the app in asha 501,Even their reply was same that there are difficulties in the OS so they couldnt put the audio messaging in the app ! (Do not know how wechat made it ! ) 
Why dont Nokia make an OS which can be made compatible with all apps(atleast few main apps).
The funniest thing is there is no Whatsapp yet,every one from nokia just learnt to say "coming soon,coming soon". Its already three months from the launch of the phone !
My sincere suggestion is NOT to buy Any Nokia phones(Personal experience).And get someother brand which make you to do your work rather than going around the customer cares as if nokia is making their customers to do now. """"" Nokia was best but not now"""""
(Guys dont say about lumia because even low priced good lumia 520 has many bugs(heats up etc etc), And every one cant afford a lumia 920 and above )

However being a Nokia fan, I'm still gonna agree to this.
Although its understandable that Version 1 of anything cannot be the best. This is just how things start up.
Nokia's planning department has really behaved crazy these past years. They have world class designers, world class development teams and research centers, but maybe they failed to understand what market needs.
Asha OS just started up, but was there a need of such a thing? The older Full Touch S40 was slowly getting the traction with all top apps such as WeChat, WhatsApp, Line, Hike having some sort of version (fully functional or not) for those phones. Nokia could've just re-skinned the same and improved the core, but they didn't. They cooked this Asha OS from ground up and made drastic changes to APIs which again made the older apps incompatible. The issue now is that these phones don't offer enough benefits to the developers to spend resources on rewriting an app for these phones. So development will again go years behind.
Dunno what to say, but maybe right point to not get a Nokia Asha anymore. Today, Apps sell and no matter how good a OS is, it still needs apps to make itself as an accepted OS. Monopoly is something which kills and same happened with Nokia.
Just hope future updates to Asha OS will improve the situation.

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