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by barista 14y ago
You know that a lot of people do buy a new Android phone that can't be upgraded to ICS. Don't you?
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by barista 14y ago
Yes I think this is a big news. Developers were afraid to commit to windows phone as a platform citing low installed base. Now with ability to target PC and tablet's suddenly the reach of your app explodes.
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by barista 14y ago
Source? and what percentage of android phones are these pure android devices?
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by barista 14y ago
Every company has failures and successes. For every a zune there is also xbox, Kinect and PC periferals. For iPad there are Apple TVs and Newtons, etc. What's the point?
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by barista 14y ago
Works probably for you but unfortunately that's not how millions of buyers get theirs.
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by barista 14y ago
Nope. They start with market share of all installed windows phone. Plus they have all the windows desktop/tablet users who could use their app as well.
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by barista 14y ago
Only the apps that use native C/C++. The rest should still run fine.
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by barista 14y ago
Here: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/?shape=smp Go to tmobile website and find the phones that are rated as the best by users and choose the top ones instead of taking the recommendation from a stranger on the internet
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by barista 14y ago
It still is getting an update with most new features with WP7.8.
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by barista 14y ago
Only the new apps that use features (e.g. native support) not available on older phones will not work on older phones. Is that not how iOS and android upgrade too?
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by barista 14y ago
There probably should be an article like this every time a new version of android is released. :)
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by barista 14y ago
Glad you didn't go android. Because their upgrade experience is not any different.
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by barista 14y ago
How about the HTCs and Samsungs that ran androids and never got their upgrades?
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by barista 14y ago
So it is delivering an update for those phones too. Additionally there is a promise to support OTA upgrade of all released devices for 18 months. What android phone has that commitment?
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by barista 14y ago
Spolsky worked at Microsoft years ago. Not sure how relevant and current his knowledge is...
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by barista 14y ago
>> doesn't have Dropbox, Pandora, and dozens of other high-profile apps Some of these apps were limited because older windows phone did not have native code support and had a limited reach. Now with shared core with windows desktop
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by barista 14y ago
>> Have you seen the iPad sales numbers recently? Another one living in Apple's reality distortion field.
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by barista 14y ago
Windows Phone 8 is based of windows core, the same core that is bread and butter for the company and is something synonymous with Microsoft. There is no switch from directions possible here
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by barista 14y ago
So would it have helped if Microsoft had been ingenious like Apple and called it Windows phone 8 but delivered fewer features instead to older devices?
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by barista 14y ago
I think iPhone started the BYOD movement because it was so much better than the rest of the devices for quite some time. Its only now that android and windows phone are catching up. If you see there are only marginal differences between the
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by barista 14y ago
I'm sure people at Microsoft didn't plan for that to freeze and they were pissed that it did but note that when apple product sees the light of the day, it's already the final product not a beta product as this was. And as far as I am readi
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Microsoft Surface's Liquid Metal Is Not The Same As Apple's LiquidMetal(forbes.com)
2 points by barista 14y ago|0 comments
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by barista 14y ago
Beta product running beta software froze!!!!
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by barista 14y ago
The software that powers the device has been out and has been played with by millions by now. So you can't compare it to playbook. Price is unknown but that will only decide how appealing the product is not necessarily the fact that it stil
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by barista 14y ago
I don't know why you'd think that Microsoft is not even on the curve here. Surface is just the hardware aspect of the complete solution. The Software has been out in beta for a few months now. It's the software that is more responsible for
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by barista 14y ago
this guy should be the next CEO of Microsoft
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by barista 14y ago
I assume your browser came integrated with adobe flash
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by barista 14y ago
I think his point was that typing on iPad sucks. Feel free to disagree because sucks is a subjective measure. I think that the integrated keyboard in both covers lets you make the choice which is what the point of the product seems to be.
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by barista 14y ago
right that's why they don't show right above where the actual content of search results is displayed....oh wait...
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by barista 14y ago
Well same applies to Microsoft and their phones have been much better at getting updates.

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