1. I believe I already explained myself why I compared BBOS7 to iOS. Both RIM and Apple are companies that write their own proprietary software for the phones they make, so I felt appropriate to compare them. I left out Samsung/Bada since not many people know about them.
If you're so adamant about it, let's pit BBOS7 and Android together. Even better, let's look at Nexus One, released in January 5, 2010. The Android OS has no GPU-accelerated UI since a long time ago, but even without that their UI is
already fluid. There, comparison done. Major advantage indeed.
2. I read the Ars Technica article before. I really hope you know what you're talking about. There are no performance enhancements to web-apps
saved to the home screen, but Nitro still boosted web-apps opened in Safari itself. I don't know if the JIT compiler for BBOS7 browser will boost web-apps saved to the home screen though, so why don't you answer that for me? Now, what is this advantage you speak of? iOS4.3 had Nitro in March 2011.
I invite you to read this article as well (not mine) if you're not too familiar with iOS:
Nitro iOS 4.3.
3. Well, I'm quite sure I didn't say I want to benchmark OS7 phones against products that don't even exist. If you can quote me on saying that then I truly apologize. Anyhow, I could have been unclear or just simply used bad phrasing. I was amused that BBOS7 browser was lauded because it beat phones with OSes released in 2010 (granted, improvements had been made along the way), and suggested that a fair comparison be made with the
next iteration of iOS and Android OS, just as BBOS7 is an upgrade from BBOS6.