[Windows Phone 7 General] Ineedtoys:
No I'm not. Again you didn't listen to anything I said. That included the fact that I would merely show them an alternative, and how that alternative could be better for them. (Why hide the picture away behind the tiles so it's barely visible, and not seen until you unlock, when you can have it in all its glory on the first screen you see, when you turn on the phone or someone calls or texts?)

I also said I would leave it up to them to make their choice - but would try to ensure that choice was informed. Put yourself in their shoes and run though the questions again. I would have thought the majority of people would give the same answers.

Why do they want wallpaper? To see a picture of my cat.

When do they want to see the wallpaper? As often as possible.

Which would they prefer - a full picture, or one obscured by tiles and icons? The full picture of course.

Do they want to have to unlock the phone before they see their cat? No, I want to see it as soon as the phone wakes up.

Here you go then, this phone ticks every one of those boxes.

There you go, stuck in your safe little box again. I already said, WP DOES offer you wallpaper. Just not the same, boring and ineffective way that other phones so (which is just about good enough for wavy patterns, but not a detailed picture).

Get out of the rut. Push the envelope a bit. Why should I do everything the same way as my competitors, if I can do it better?

Bored of cats now. Lets try burgers. Most people want food outlets to serve meat (sorry to the veggies out there). The lowest common denominator format of that, with the most outlets, is the burger, and everyone knows what they'll get (food poisoning aside) when they buy one.

Does that mean every other restaurant should only be allowed to serve meat pulped up in a bun, "because other people do it", when there are so many ways of cooking and serving it in a much more refined, unspoilt, and enjoyable way? Of course not. So why do you insist that the only place and method you can possibly deploy a wallpaper image is behind some launcher tiles?

Unless, like me, you get it just out of interest and then find it's actually rather good at Getting Things Done, even for business, and is also ideal for other members of the family who would be bored to death if you started a conversation about smartphones, but still would like to share stuff with their friends on Facebook just as easily as they make a call. Like others here, I've proved that with my own family. On the other side of the coin though, a totally non-technical (but highly educated) friend who'd had an HTC Wildfire for a year, got given a Lumia replacement and hated it - it was too much of a qauntum leap switching from conventional application based working to task and activity based workflows. She's getting used to it now, but it was interesting to see the way different people tick (left and right side of the brain, and all that).

But for plenty of others in the middle ground I agree with you (gosh!). That's why Nokia are now focussing on cheap handsets (610/710) to capture ex-featurephone users moving up to a smartphone who might find iOS and Android to expensive or daunting.