By next year Android will be multi-core optimized, actually it will be this spring with 2.4. The argument against Atrix is that Android isn't yet optimized for multi-cores, and that Moto is slow about upgrading their devices to newer Android versions.
I don't buy that. Considering that we're all being tied to new 2 year contracts, and that if Android becomes multi-core optimized by next season, it'd definitely be better to get a dual core processor now than 2 years later.
Plus, I expect HTC to release a dual core phone pretty soon (whether it's the DHD2 or something else), and I'm expecting that you will all praise the dual cores. Which is pretty hypocritical given your arguments against the Atrix's dual cores. I know, it's not optimized
yet. But so what? A few months early is not a big deal. Especially when we're tied to a 2 year contract. And even if Moto doesn't update the OS as quickly as HTC, they'll definitely update it far sooner than your 2-yr agreement ends. The Droid X got Froyo only a month or so after the EVO.
No I'm not trying to get into a Atrix vs Inspire discussion. Cuz
this isn't about the Atrix -- I put that in bold hoping that everybody will comprehend that. And to be honest, I've always found those threads to be idiotic. I'm just pointing out some behavior that I've seen all too often come from an iPhone camp. Whenever someone would point out a missing feature on the iPhone, the iPhone guys would defend how that feature is not only unnecessary, but also undesireable. But once the iPhone later gains that feature, they praise it as if Lord Steve Jobs invented it himself.
