I honestly feel like with all it's shortcomings(and there are some obvious ones), windows phone is the best operating system out. I feel like goldilocks with the 3 bears....With the iphone, it is a good phone if you want tons of apps and are heavily into multimedia....Apple's ecosystem and their phones are great. While the experience is good, it quickly gets old...the OS just feels like it is stuck in 2007. There is not a lot of freedom to do a lot with it and you have limited choices if you don't like something to change it.
Android is an Operating system that is excellent for customization and the freedom to do whatever the heck you want with it. I love the fact I can go back to when i was younger and i can play emulators for gameboy or playstation. You have so much freedom as far as your mind allows you to go....you can make your phone better than what it was when you brought it. I love this....But with all the freedom, comes certain restrictions. If you want the best Android experience...you HAVE to get a Nexus phone(straight from google, not the carriers). You are sort of held hostage to carriers/manufacturers as to when or if you will get adequate support for your device.
And then I think of it this way...Why should i have to tinker, hack it, flash or do anything to my phone. I feel like if i have to waste the time to fix annoying issues that the manufacturer didn't take their time to perfect or to keep my phone up to date, why bother with the phone?
Which Brings me to Windows Phone....It's New...it's vastly different and unique and it has amazing potential that is being blocked partially by developer's not embracing it like the other 2 and add in the fact that there are some dumb people at microsoft not exploring the potential. Our app store is small....significantly compared to IOS/Android....Sometimes the apps we get that are on other platforms do not bring the same experience(Kik, Kakao, whatsapp, etc etc)...We don't have big name apps like Instagram or Pandora(which IS coming)...Even apps owned by Microsoft leave mixed experiences on Windows phone compared to IOS/Android(Skype).
So why is Windows phone the best operating system to me?
Because I Honestly feel like if you take away the apps stores from all 3....Windows Phone in it's native state is amazing.
Social Networking....it's integrated into the phone. I don' t have to download 3rd party apps to get the experience and thus expose my data to app developers. Granted, Microsoft's People hub is not perfect but at least it is built into the phone.
Microsoft Office...also integrated and integrated well into the phone. Yes, Android has their productivity type of apps similar to Microsoft but it is nowhere as good or embraced or supported in day to day life. Apple i am not too sure about, tbh.
But most importantly...the user experience....with Android, no one android is the same experience as another android....For example, I absolutely hate LG's android phones(or any phone from them) and the ugly UI they use. But i'll have a much better experience with say touchwiz or Don't call it blur or sense...but then there is Stock android which lacks the wow factors of the manufacturer skins and up until 4.0 was in my opinion THE WORST experience of android....Pre-4.0 stock Android was horrendous to me(I preferred Sense back then). And even if you have a phone with the latest operating system, the experience still isn't the same.
Iphones do have the same/similar experience across their devices since they only release 1 phone usually but the experience is so basic.....But windows phones have the same experience no matter what device you are using. I have noticed that even using lower end windows phones, the experience is still fluid and smooth because the OS is smooth as butter. Try using a phone like the Galaxy S3 or Droid DNA and then going to a phone such as the pantech marauder or Kyocera Hydro.....you'll see a vast difference. Even high end Android phones still suffer lag...if it's not stock.
I spent 3 years with android and many androids....I spent a day with the iphone(though my dad owns one so i still play with his iphone often and i am learning more about it)....I may get annoyed with certain things on WP and from what i understand they have existed since windows phone 7...but honestly windows phone is the best operating system and now after returning to android again, I am officially convinced of that.
I just wish developers would see that and at least bring their efforts over to our side and when they do bring the efforts...stop half-as*sing it and giving us mediocre experiences. Give us equal experiences.
Sorry, I just felt like typing this out
Android is an Operating system that is excellent for customization and the freedom to do whatever the heck you want with it. I love the fact I can go back to when i was younger and i can play emulators for gameboy or playstation. You have so much freedom as far as your mind allows you to go....you can make your phone better than what it was when you brought it. I love this....But with all the freedom, comes certain restrictions. If you want the best Android experience...you HAVE to get a Nexus phone(straight from google, not the carriers). You are sort of held hostage to carriers/manufacturers as to when or if you will get adequate support for your device.
And then I think of it this way...Why should i have to tinker, hack it, flash or do anything to my phone. I feel like if i have to waste the time to fix annoying issues that the manufacturer didn't take their time to perfect or to keep my phone up to date, why bother with the phone?
Which Brings me to Windows Phone....It's New...it's vastly different and unique and it has amazing potential that is being blocked partially by developer's not embracing it like the other 2 and add in the fact that there are some dumb people at microsoft not exploring the potential. Our app store is small....significantly compared to IOS/Android....Sometimes the apps we get that are on other platforms do not bring the same experience(Kik, Kakao, whatsapp, etc etc)...We don't have big name apps like Instagram or Pandora(which IS coming)...Even apps owned by Microsoft leave mixed experiences on Windows phone compared to IOS/Android(Skype).
So why is Windows phone the best operating system to me?
Because I Honestly feel like if you take away the apps stores from all 3....Windows Phone in it's native state is amazing.
Social Networking....it's integrated into the phone. I don' t have to download 3rd party apps to get the experience and thus expose my data to app developers. Granted, Microsoft's People hub is not perfect but at least it is built into the phone.
Microsoft Office...also integrated and integrated well into the phone. Yes, Android has their productivity type of apps similar to Microsoft but it is nowhere as good or embraced or supported in day to day life. Apple i am not too sure about, tbh.
But most importantly...the user experience....with Android, no one android is the same experience as another android....For example, I absolutely hate LG's android phones(or any phone from them) and the ugly UI they use. But i'll have a much better experience with say touchwiz or Don't call it blur or sense...but then there is Stock android which lacks the wow factors of the manufacturer skins and up until 4.0 was in my opinion THE WORST experience of android....Pre-4.0 stock Android was horrendous to me(I preferred Sense back then). And even if you have a phone with the latest operating system, the experience still isn't the same.
Iphones do have the same/similar experience across their devices since they only release 1 phone usually but the experience is so basic.....But windows phones have the same experience no matter what device you are using. I have noticed that even using lower end windows phones, the experience is still fluid and smooth because the OS is smooth as butter. Try using a phone like the Galaxy S3 or Droid DNA and then going to a phone such as the pantech marauder or Kyocera Hydro.....you'll see a vast difference. Even high end Android phones still suffer lag...if it's not stock.
I spent 3 years with android and many androids....I spent a day with the iphone(though my dad owns one so i still play with his iphone often and i am learning more about it)....I may get annoyed with certain things on WP and from what i understand they have existed since windows phone 7...but honestly windows phone is the best operating system and now after returning to android again, I am officially convinced of that.
I just wish developers would see that and at least bring their efforts over to our side and when they do bring the efforts...stop half-as*sing it and giving us mediocre experiences. Give us equal experiences.
Sorry, I just felt like typing this out