They won't maintain an OS for low single-digit market share.
There are more than 7 billion people on the planet. A single digit percentage of them is a massive, massive amount of money. I don't think that you know what you're talking about.
Simple shit, like joining to Exchange accounts, is actually not as easy as you think.
Put in my username and password, and they all work for me. Never had an issue. I'm on my second Windows phone, and I use 4 different Exchange accounts.
It took me 25 minutes to Bluetooth a photo off one of them.
Yikes. Maybe you're better off sticking with flip phones...
GMail? I don't know about you, but I do business with my phone, so GMail isn't an option. A phone OS needs a top notch email client, because that's what I'm usually using it for.
I can't explain why people using Android/ios any more than I can explain why people shop at Wal-Mart and eat at McDonald's. Sometimes, people are just dumb.
To actively support it, and not have any stock for months, yes, that's pretty stupid. If they had dropped all support for it, that would've been a business decision. Simply not having any Windows Phones for a few months was incompetence.
Well, we'll see about Windows 10 for Phones. It hasn't been released yet, so I'm not surprised you're having trouble with whatever beta or developers release you're using. It gets tested on every cell provider and hardware iteration before it's pushed out, so I doubt it's going to suck.
Either you've never used a Windows Phone, or you have the most bizarre opinions about user interfaces... wait, I'm guessing you're a command-line person, right?
But MS is one of the largest companies on the planet. The people running things knows that it's probably just a matter of time, so they're not going to sweat spending some money to keep it alive for now.
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Nope, never going to see ads from ANY ad network. If a web site wants to show me ads, they can do it from their own domain.
government oppression
[rolls eyes]
I'd say that most Slashdotters are not afraid of their own shadows, hence don't see the need to walk around with guns all of the time.
"Stopping a threat". Yeah, some armchair warrior has seen a few too many Steven Segal movies.
I doubt the increased yield can account for the massive infrastructure cost for something like this. Their ROI has to be a few centuries, if ever.
Even considering the savings with LED's, I still have a hard time believing that it's profitable to grow lettuce this way.
I doubt that Apple is going to do wireless charging. They make a FORTUNE from all of the rubes that have to buy their special cables.
Why do you think that you should have any right on Facebook, at all? You don't have any rights on my private networks.
CENSORSHIP has nothing to do with private companies, you uneducated fool. Twitter would be (and should be) enforcing their policies of no hate speech.
There are also plenty of people who've been hit by lightning. That doesn't mean sane people walk around with lighting rods on their heads.
Oh, gun nuts. So silly (and paranoid)!
Easy access to firearms actually protects people.
There's a WHOLE lotta correlation there, and very little causation there.
It's always the big tough ANONYMOUS COWARDS talking about how good they are with guns...
They won't maintain an OS for low single-digit market share.
There are more than 7 billion people on the planet. A single digit percentage of them is a massive, massive amount of money. I don't think that you know what you're talking about.
Because they'll have almost stopped being relevant.
It's so cute when armchair CEO's say this about one of the largest companies on the planet.
Oh bummer. Well, I hope that Verizon doesn't mess it up when they get Windows 10.
Simple shit, like joining to Exchange accounts, is actually not as easy as you think.
Put in my username and password, and they all work for me. Never had an issue. I'm on my second Windows phone, and I use 4 different Exchange accounts.
It took me 25 minutes to Bluetooth a photo off one of them.
Yikes. Maybe you're better off sticking with flip phones...
Speak for yourself. I'm not interested in buying a "cool" brand. I'm not a 12 year old.
That being said, Windows Phone is pretty cool.
GMail? I don't know about you, but I do business with my phone, so GMail isn't an option. A phone OS needs a top notch email client, because that's what I'm usually using it for.
I can't explain why people using Android/ios any more than I can explain why people shop at Wal-Mart and eat at McDonald's. Sometimes, people are just dumb.
To actively support it, and not have any stock for months, yes, that's pretty stupid. If they had dropped all support for it, that would've been a business decision. Simply not having any Windows Phones for a few months was incompetence.
Well, we'll see about Windows 10 for Phones. It hasn't been released yet, so I'm not surprised you're having trouble with whatever beta or developers release you're using. It gets tested on every cell provider and hardware iteration before it's pushed out, so I doubt it's going to suck.
Either you've never used a Windows Phone, or you have the most bizarre opinions about user interfaces... wait, I'm guessing you're a command-line person, right?
I don't know if coming with a TripAdvisor app is the same as "cram ... full of bloatware". Both your statement and this article seem a bit hyperbolic.
But MS is one of the largest companies on the planet. The people running things knows that it's probably just a matter of time, so they're not going to sweat spending some money to keep it alive for now.