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I don't think that there's anything wrong with Windows Phone 7 (other than the lake of apps). I just think they MS was too late in the game.

On the UI level, Windows Phone 7 is beautiful. Android seems too Tron-ish, and iOS is right in between Windows Phone 7 and Android.

I have way too many apps that I can share across all of my iOS devices to want to switch now, regardless of how amazing Windows Mobile may be (and I'm not suggesting it is; I really don't know). While it is true that many apps are fairly inexpensive in the first place, I have them on my family's three iPhones and two iPads. Why switch?

There are two things wrong with Windows Phone that I can think of.

-It works well with lesser hardware, but where's the "Big Guns"? No Dual Core yet? Granted, this is a matter of personal taste, and it will eventually come.

-It's curated. For me, that's a dealbreaker. If I have to buy through ONE store, I'm not interested.

People spent years being burned by MS/Windows when it held a virtual monopoly in the personal computer world: now that they have alternatives, why trust them? Microsoft is your father's OS and it became synonymous with viruses, buggy OS'es, high prices for OS "upgrades," etc. Fair or not, they have a perception problem and in order to overcome their past, they need to be a whole let better than the competition - offering something that just blows you out of the water, not something that a few fans see as marginally better.

Android has a boring grid of icons? Not on my phone. It has widgets that are many times better than the boring grid of tiles. They have many different sizes and can be customized to lots of things Windows Phone can not.

Anyone who takes a Windows Phone as a serious alternative to iPhone has a serious memory deficit. Unlike Apple, Microsoft's platforms are a very unreliable, mixed bag of successes and failures. I would never, for example, commit the development of my app or media library to them.

Of all the people commenting on WP7 I see there really isnt anyone that has it. And its hysterical to see people comment on something they havent used.

Use it-
yes the Tiles are not customizable but with the app owners, they are the ones that design them and make them "live"
The Social and people hub are Mile above and beyond Android or IOS and save heaps of time looking for resources in different locations.
It runs on lesser hardware - so think about it - that means the other OSes need more hardware to fun their OS as smoothly. Thats a plus not a minue is MS's favor.

The only think I can agree on is he number of Apps... but there seems to be not as many trash apps as IOS and Android. WP7 apps seem to be growing at a rate as fast or faster than Android or OIS as well.


MS seems to be the ony company with the vision and ability to create 1 OS for all devices. As mobile device and power doubles every year, its likley to be able to handle a REAL OS in the near future.

Oh and the last thing wrong with WP7 - are the people who have never used it that make comments on blogs.

I just have bad experience with Windows. I will always have this perception that it will crash on me in a middle of a call. Or maybe I have to reboot while searching on the web.

jabberwolf, on 04 June 2012 - 11:23 AM, said:

You mean like you and the iPhone?

jabberwolf, on 04 June 2012 - 11:23 AM, said:

What the entire “iOS vs Mac OS X” hyperventilation of invented dramatic controversy fails to grasp is that Apple’s mobile iOS really is Mac OS X, albeit with a modified Cocoa development platform and device-appropriate user interface. - Dan Dilger, writing on www.roughlydrafted.com.

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jabberwolf, on 04 June 2012 - 11:23 AM, said:

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Are you serious? "MS, the only company with the vision and ability to create 1 OS for all devices?" I just about fell off my chair laughing. How many versions of Windows are there now? What about "Windows" 8 Metro? Call it Windows, but it won't run Windows apps. You must be Steve Ballmer getting ready to do the monkey dance….

I love the interface of my WP7 phone, but what it is missing are the right applications, and at the right price. There are substitutes for just about everything you'd want on iOS, but substitutes often times aren't good enough. Words By Post isn't Words With Friends and Postage Tracker isn't Delivery Status. You can get some of the same games, but because they are Xbox Live enabled (which does nothing for me, since I don't have an Xbox 360), they are $2 more than their iOS counterparts.

In addition, when I went to purchase my HTC Arrive a year ago, the salesperson asked me a half dozen times if I was sure I wanted to go with a WindowsPhone. "You don't want an Android? Are you sure?" It's no wonder Microsoft is having trouble selling them, and Sprint's CEO isn't too hot on them, when you actively have the salespeople leading customers away from the product.

I know about the Microsoft App for syncing but I can't seem to find an answer if it syncs the Address book data. What is up with that? Why does an article in MacWorld not give you their experience with this sync software from Microsoft?

philomath777, on 04 June 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

And you clearly have no idea how Windows 8 works. You can run Metro or legacy apps, you're not stuck with one choice. If you have two monitors you can run both at the same time, or run legacy apps in the background while using Metro apps.