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In a functional open-source ecosystem third parties would be pushing their innovations and enhancements back upstream for the benefit of everyone. Instead it's
by cageface 15y ago
In a functional open-source ecosystem third parties would be pushing their innovations and enhancements back upstream for the benefit of everyone. Instead it's just a bunch of downstream, second-rate UI hacks that are different just for the sake of being different.
I think it's crucial that the mobile OS ecosystem is not dominated by any single player, but I find myself in the extremely unexpected and awkward position of rooting for Windows Phone.
- funkah 15y agoI basically feel the same way, but I used WP7 at SxSW this year and it was a very disappointing experience. Even the apps that they were demoing to show how great WP7 is crashed with ugly "NullReferenceException" dialog boxes. (Crashing is one thing, but it's no help to the user to barf up a stack trace, however beautifully that stack trace may be formatted.) The Zagat app was one of the ones they were flogging, and it was pretty much unusable.
- bunderbunder 15y agoOK yes the handling of that error message is terrible in that special way that only Microsoft can be terrible at handling error messages. . . But apps crashing with NullReferenceExceptions? WTF!? Sounds like Microsoft needs to start a program where each major app developer gets a personal visit from a Microsoft representative armed with a free copy of ReSharper and a long, baleful stare.