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Maybe Microsoft could try a challenge of uploading a review to Yelp from your Windows Phone. The lack of apps and full functionality as compared to their iOS an

Maybe Microsoft could try a challenge of uploading a review to Yelp from your Windows Phone. The lack of apps and full functionality as compared to their iOS and Android equivalents is crippling.

KeyBoardG 15y ago
This point would be valid, save for the fact that there a Yelp app on WindowsPhone.
- reiichiroh 15y ago
  There is but you can't do anything useful with it like login or submit reviews.
  - kcl 15y ago
    Yelp has a policy that bars reviews written on mobile devices. This is done to protect the quality of the reviews. You can't submit reviews from an iPhone either. The functionality doesn't exist.
    - foxit 15y ago
      In Android, you can submit reviews written via a browser, just not via the Yelp app. Via the app, you can write and submit "quick tips" (which are often short reviews) and draft regular reviews with a star rating on your mobile device, but then you have to open the browser to submit them.
    - reiichiroh 15y ago
      Alright, you can't login to the Yelp app then.
    - r00fus 15y ago
      Are you just making this up? I just did that with my iPhone Yelp app right now. Go to a yelp entry, "Add" and "Draft a review".
mrspandex 15y ago
Yelp has a Windows phone app. Even if it didn't, you can do that from a web browser too.
- azakai 15y ago
  Regardless, the point stands, WP7 receives a lot less app attention - which makes sense since it has 1.7% market share. For example, the new Angry Birds launched on iOS and Android, and has no plans to port to WP7 due to the need to rewrite it for that platform, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-22/-angry-birds-space-edition-skips-windows-phone-in-blow-to-nokia.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-22/-angry-birds-space-...
  - neil_kerkin 15y ago
    That has changed apparently. "Rovio to get Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone: CEO" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/net-us-rovio-windows-idUSBRE82M0RG20120323 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/net-us-rovio-windo...

Maybe Microsoft could try a challenge of uploading a review to Yelp from your Windows Phone. The lack of apps and full functionality as compared to their iOS and Android equivalents is crippling.

KeyBoardG 15y ago

This point would be valid, save for the fact that there a Yelp app on WindowsPhone.

reiichiroh 15y ago
There is but you can't do anything useful with it like login or submit reviews.
- kcl 15y ago
  Yelp has a policy that bars reviews written on mobile devices. This is done to protect the quality of the reviews. You can't submit reviews from an iPhone either. The functionality doesn't exist.
  - foxit 15y ago
    In Android, you can submit reviews written via a browser, just not via the Yelp app. Via the app, you can write and submit "quick tips" (which are often short reviews) and draft regular reviews with a star rating on your mobile device, but then you have to open the browser to submit them.
  - reiichiroh 15y ago
    Alright, you can't login to the Yelp app then.
  - r00fus 15y ago
    Are you just making this up? I just did that with my iPhone Yelp app right now. Go to a yelp entry, "Add" and "Draft a review".

mrspandex 15y ago

Yelp has a Windows phone app. Even if it didn't, you can do that from a web browser too.

azakai 15y ago
Regardless, the point stands, WP7 receives a lot less app attention - which makes sense since it has 1.7% market share. For example, the new Angry Birds launched on iOS and Android, and has no plans to port to WP7 due to the need to rewrite it for that platform, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-22/-angry-birds-space-edition-skips-windows-phone-in-blow-to-nokia.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-22/-angry-birds-space-...
- neil_kerkin 15y ago
  That has changed apparently. "Rovio to get Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone: CEO" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/net-us-rovio-windows-idUSBRE82M0RG20120323 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/net-us-rovio-windo...