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As an aside, why do you feel Windows phones are not "great"? Full disclosure I used to work for MS, but I have no product loyalty for any company. My previous t
by city41 13y ago
As an aside, why do you feel Windows phones are not "great"? Full disclosure I used to work for MS, but I have no product loyalty for any company. My previous two phones were iPhones, and for the first time ever I finally feel like I have a great smartphone with my Nokia Lumia (WP8).
I'm stumped why everyone is so down on WP8. Granted, the app store is pretty grim. If that is the main concern, then fair enough. But I feel like the phone/OS themselves are stellar.
- RivieraKid 13y agoI agree with you and I expected that WP will start eating Android's share, because until recently, Android's UX sucked. Why were consumers buying plasticky phones with the slow and unintuitive Android instead of Lumia phones? Similarly baffling was that Palm Pre completely failed as an iPhone competitor. Some of the possible reasons: * It was a market failure, consumers weren't choosing what was best for them. * WP came too late. * Thanks to its flexibility and openess, Android was able to fill various market niches.
- city41 13y agoYeah all of that is true. WP7/WP8 taking so long is probably something they will never fully recover from. Not to mention the WP7->WP8 nonexistent upgrade path. But my curiosity is in the phone and OS itself. People seem to hate on it, and I don't get where that hate is coming from. Taken at face value, Windows Phone 8 is a really great phone OS.
- untog 13y agoWebOS was great, but failed. That could well have been marketing, and MS have that covered. I did like my Windows Phone a lot, lack of apps excepted. But then I found out I had no upgrade path to WP8, so I went back to Android- which, in the mean time, had a huge upgrade to 4.0, so the UI isn't even so far behind any more.