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I fail to see how the size of the company should affect one's perception of an OS. If WP7 was made by two greasy dudes in their basement, I would still think i

I fail to see how the size of the company should affect one's perception of an OS. If WP7 was made by two greasy dudes in their basement, I would still think it is just as nice. I've used the clipboard once since they've updated WP7 with it, but perhaps I'm just not a smartphone power user. Regarding multitasking, frankly I like iOS/WP7 solution far better than Android. Android runs fully background tasks, meaning all those poorly coded applications can chew away at your memory, cpu and battery life. The iPhone forces apps to hibernate, or at most keep one thread open for background processing or streaming. The rest of the app is suspended. WP7 allows tombstoning your application and you can push updates through Live Tiles. With Mango WP7 will operate basically like the iPhone.

rbanffy 15y ago
> If WP7 was made by two greasy dudes in their basement, I would still think it is just as nice. It would be a lot more impressive. > I've used the clipboard once since they've updated WP7 with it I use it regularly with e-mail. Without it, e-mail becomes that long sausage of quoted text and most readers can't quite figure out what are you taking about. It spares me a lot of re-explaining. Not to say re-typing (which, in a small keyboard, is great) > Regarding multitasking, frankly I like iOS/WP7 solution far better than Android. I tend to agree with that. There is something in the Android way of killing apps that feels wrong, but the way it manages the app lifecycle (inactivating, preserving state, killing) automatically has its own intrinsic virtues. I like the way WebOS does it with cards. I feel iOS is a little bit confusing. Never experimented with Mango (WP7 has more registered developers in Brazil than phones sold), so, no first-hand experience with it here.
- runjake 15y ago
  And this is why he prefers WP7 and you prefer WebOS. But then again, this was a WP7 topic -- perhaps you should submit more WebOS topics to evangelize in?
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    I started this thread pointing out how silly is the idea that phone makers will invest money in a product that has been, so far, a failure (because, let's face it, the general public doesn't want it) from a company that is doing patent extortion with them, that already has a partnership (and that's quite an understatement) with a huge competitor - Nokia - just because the largest contributor to the open-source software you use bought one of your competitors, despite the fact it has, repeatedly, stated the acquired company will operate as a separate business and will not enjoy privileged status. Ignoring the fact that now Google has 17000+ more patents to defend its partners against extortion. And don't forget, even desperate as it was, Nokia wouldn't have gone WP7 without the billion or so Microsoft paid them. I mentioned WebOS just to point out it's slick too. Sadly, this has not translated well in sales. There may be some more WP7 phones in the future, but I am quite sure it's not because companies fear Motorola will enjoy preferred partner status.

rbanffy 15y ago

> If WP7 was made by two greasy dudes in their basement, I would still think it is just as nice. It would be a lot more impressive. > I've used the clipboard once since they've updated WP7 with it I use it regularly with e-mail. Without it, e-mail becomes that long sausage of quoted text and most readers can't quite figure out what are you taking about. It spares me a lot of re-explaining. Not to say re-typing (which, in a small keyboard, is great) > Regarding multitasking, frankly I like iOS/WP7 solution far better than Android. I tend to agree with that. There is something in the Android way of killing apps that feels wrong, but the way it manages the app lifecycle (inactivating, preserving state, killing) automatically has its own intrinsic virtues. I like the way WebOS does it with cards. I feel iOS is a little bit confusing. Never experimented with Mango (WP7 has more registered developers in Brazil than phones sold), so, no first-hand experience with it here.

runjake 15y ago
And this is why he prefers WP7 and you prefer WebOS. But then again, this was a WP7 topic -- perhaps you should submit more WebOS topics to evangelize in?
- rbanffy 15y ago
  I started this thread pointing out how silly is the idea that phone makers will invest money in a product that has been, so far, a failure (because, let's face it, the general public doesn't want it) from a company that is doing patent extortion with them, that already has a partnership (and that's quite an understatement) with a huge competitor - Nokia - just because the largest contributor to the open-source software you use bought one of your competitors, despite the fact it has, repeatedly, stated the acquired company will operate as a separate business and will not enjoy privileged status. Ignoring the fact that now Google has 17000+ more patents to defend its partners against extortion. And don't forget, even desperate as it was, Nokia wouldn't have gone WP7 without the billion or so Microsoft paid them. I mentioned WebOS just to point out it's slick too. Sadly, this has not translated well in sales. There may be some more WP7 phones in the future, but I am quite sure it's not because companies fear Motorola will enjoy preferred partner status.