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Whilst bitching heavily about it earlier, I've got to be honest here. If they fix the people, mail and calendar app bugs, which they are doing rapidly, it destr
by setq 10y ago
Whilst bitching heavily about it earlier, I've got to be honest here. If they fix the people, mail and calendar app bugs, which they are doing rapidly, it destroys Apple and Google's offerings. I've only used them with an outlook.com and office 365 account so far but it really has potential. Just please Microsoft, don't screw it all up and feature dump too hard!
For reference I went on a six month long hiatus after using Android for about two years and getting shafted by zero updates, via a Nokia dumb phone and now to WP, which was where I was before the android handset. Android on a mid range handset is a disaster worthy of it's own rant in a more appropriate thread. My wife is always complaining about her iPhone 6s random problems like audio disappearing and suddenly getting random impossible to delete stuff appear in her calendar from emails and the inability to easily move music around. There's an opportunity to kill this friction.
As for app culture, screw it. When I had a dumb Nokia I learned that it pays to use a proper computer for anything serious so I run the phone as a music player, a phone and casual email/calendar device and nothing else.
eBay app was awful. The android one is no better - falls over all the time.
- cmdrfred 10y agoI agree with you on the apps. I have 6 apps. Email, text, phone, podcasts, maps and browser.
- alexkavon 10y agoPeople and Calendar have a ways to go with no Carddav or Caldav support.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe developer experience is miles ahead of Android, even when looking at the phone/store split they had on 8.x. The only downside was having accelerated graphics only available as pure COM instead of WinRT components, but even there the situation is improving.
- roryisok 10y agoabsolutely. neither iOS nor Android allow you to build an app in pure javascript/html, or have an app that will run on both the desktop and mobile without a single code change.
- hashhar 10y agoThe best thing I love about Windows development after coming from playing with Java and Android is the power and flexibility and saneness (is that a thing?) of XAML and WPF. And even the C# language is very much compared to Java.