Ok so this has become my favorite feature, and not just because while I was out to dinner it suggested afterwards I go to a Museum and a Strip Club
In fact I was off skiing and staying on the mountain and need some stuff from the supermarket but by the time I got to the town at the base of the mountain it was 7:00pm and the supermarket was closed. No matter, even in rural areas local scout comes to the rescue showing me that 17km away was another supermarket, since it also gave me the phone number i called them and they were open for another 2 hours so I got the directions using Bing maps and got what I needed
This isn't an isolated incident either, local scout has been useful more times than i can remember.
Point is I'm not really one for apps so I've never had platform lock-in, sure if i were an iOS user and had a bunch of apps i wouldn't be happy about abandoning them to switch platforms, same goes for Android. So for me to stay with a platform it has to be the OS that provides the killer feature, something so useful that if i didn't have an equivalent it would really have a negative impact. For me WP7 has Local Scout and it's brilliant and I think it's got me hooked!
In fact I was off skiing and staying on the mountain and need some stuff from the supermarket but by the time I got to the town at the base of the mountain it was 7:00pm and the supermarket was closed. No matter, even in rural areas local scout comes to the rescue showing me that 17km away was another supermarket, since it also gave me the phone number i called them and they were open for another 2 hours so I got the directions using Bing maps and got what I needed
This isn't an isolated incident either, local scout has been useful more times than i can remember.
Point is I'm not really one for apps so I've never had platform lock-in, sure if i were an iOS user and had a bunch of apps i wouldn't be happy about abandoning them to switch platforms, same goes for Android. So for me to stay with a platform it has to be the OS that provides the killer feature, something so useful that if i didn't have an equivalent it would really have a negative impact. For me WP7 has Local Scout and it's brilliant and I think it's got me hooked!