The root issue is the competition itself, seems to be a bizarre way of marketing a mass-produced device OS... done right, it could be a great way to tout the qualities of your devices, but done wrong it has so many downsides.
It would take me maybe 5 seconds to load the app from a cold start, but so what? Windows phone doesn't win because a specialized pre-setup could save me 3 seconds. It would win if it could do something my android couldn't do at all...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui is really, really slick.
I would love to see a race. I very much doubt WP7 could win but I'll be very impressed if it does. Anybody have the appropriate collection of devices and the time to film a demo? :)
>I can build a Hello World app on Android in under 2 seconds.