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Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone?
First time accepted submitter occasional_dabbler writes "Reviews by 'commentators' such as this one predict certain doom for both Nokia and Microsoft on the basis of the OS being a failure, yet whenever the Lumia handsets are reviewed in the mainstream press they are often highly praised. Windows phone is an immature OS, certainly, but it does pretty much everything you need in a smartphone, is getting better with each update and it is beautiful. I have a Lumia 800, and now I'm used to how it and the WP OS works I find it a painful process to go back to an Android or iPhone for some obscure app not yet supported on WP. WP gave me the same feeling I got when I bought my first iBook, fired up OS X 10.1 and realized I had just been shifted up a decade. So why so serious? What do Slashdotters who have really tried WP think of it?"
What's my beef? My beef?
I'm a vegetarian you insensitive clod! I only eat apples and blackberrys.
People would rather buy Motorola Droids even though the adverts feature ninjas and giant robots.
Even though?
0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
It's VI verses EMACS with Microsoft in the middle trying to push NOTEPAD!
Microsoft isn't going to do well in the phone market, they don't have the pretty of Apple, the utility of Android, or the stability of either.
So there is irrational rabid hate for it.
30+ years of experience with Microsoft underlies that "hatred" that you so cavalierly dismiss as "irrational."
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me for decades and I must be a certified Microsoft specialist.
But "Windows Mobile" has NOTHING to do with the new WP7 phones... nothing in common at all from a user perspective. So that's a ridiculous and irrational reason to avoid WP7 phones, definitely.
They're worth a try. They're pretty cool, actually.
- Spryguy
There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
Once you see how wonderfully helpful these tiles are on your desktop and server, you'll get used to them. Or not.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Doesn't matter if they have nothing to do with one another.
People got burned once, they dont feel like getting burned again. Could be the best tasting soup on the face of the earth, but if the last time you came in and found a finger in it, you're not coming back.
They are not! I am typing this on a Windows Phone right now and as you can see its.......^^^NO CARRIER
> I think it's the size of them [Windows phone tiles] that looks silly, looks like a kids toy.
You mean like the default "PlaySkool" theme of Windows XP?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
It's actually pretty simple. It's the same as Oracle's, both derived from the simplified IRS tax form 0:
1. How much money do you have? _____
2. Send it in.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
I had no idea that 98% of all smartphone users were on /.!
There's nothing irrational about it. You can only serve your guests chocolate covered dog turds so many times before they stop coming over. Then when you go to their house with a plate, telling them there's only a little dog turd in that batch and you expect to be upgrading to a turd free recipe any day now, don't be surprised when you are shown the door.
WinRT (formally known as "Windows Runtime")
Now known as WinRAT ("Windows RUN AWAY! time").