Re: tried an iphone 6 and iphone 6+ today .... got so jealous !
How can anyone be jealous of an iPhone. The interface is so.... Windows 3.1 like, what with everything being an icon on the desktop, so to speak. No live tiles, no info at a glance. You have to launch the app to get information.
Live tiles are so much better. I just can't get past the UI on other platforms. No jealousy here, that's for sure.
That was my perception after using an iPhone 4S for a while. It did work very well, but seemed like a high-powered Palm Pilot or Tungsten T3. True, if you can think of it, there's probably an app for it in the App Store, but I really wanted to see something more like what WM6.5 provided on the "home" screen and Office compatibility.
I started with a Handspring Visor Prism in 2002, then an AT&T Tilt 8925 in 2008. Briefly tried a Samsung Captivate Glide (I like real keyboards) but didn't care for Quickoffice or the possibility of malware (perceived anyway), and then went to the 4S for about 2 years. Added a NUU bluetooth keyboard. Upgraded to a 5S for a bit, then went all the way back to an AT&T Tilt2. True, the 5S included Pages and Numbers (Word and Excel type apps), but it felt like some more of the same with a nice fingerprint scanner (it did make the upgrade painless). I didn't care for using Numbers on the iPhone (seems a bit clunky, not as much formula power), and you had to have the latest version of Numbers for Mac (not even Excel for Mac) or it wouldn't sync spreadsheets. Grrrr.
I wanted to try WP for some time (I'm a ways from upgrade eligible) so I bought a used HTC Titan 2 and found I like the interface. Thanks to the Windows Central Forums, I updated it to WP7.8. :smile: The ability to resize the tiles and move things around is far better in my opinion than just seeing a list of apps. Seeing the time, date, email and text counts, and the next calendar appt on the lock screen is useful to me as well. iOS doesn't provide all of that as easily. Now if we could just customize the WP lock screen a little more... (I really haven't looked yet) My main complaint with WP is I can't sync everything to the computer like with WM6.5. Strikes me as odd that MS would drop that.
True, iPhones seem to be a bit of a status symbol, but they also work well. I too think (just my opinion; keep your arrows in the quiver) they are more for the mainstream user (such as my wife) and not so much for business. I use my phone nearly as a portable computer, editing documents on it routinely and computing various values in spreadsheets. Hence the reason I keep looking for keyboards. I also rely on the calendar quite a bit for reminders and such. Palm and WM6.5 were quite to my liking; it took some doing for me to get the same utility from iOS. Lollipop might provide a good home screen; I'll wait to find out.
My wife has an iPhone 6+. I answered a call for her today and thought I was holding an iPad to my head. It's pretty big! But, she likes it because the screen is bigger and easier to read. That's also what I like about the Titan2 over the Tilt2. Too bad the Titan 2 won't get WP10.
What I find a bit surprising is how the iPhone took so much marketshare. As I recall, WM6 was quite popular back in the day, (after Palm) as were Blackberries. Apple was originally making personal music players. Good marketing move on Apple's part. Perhaps the intended product markets are not the same...or the same size?
As was (kind of) stated a few times already--Find the phone you like. If it's not what everyone else has, so what? In six months, no one will notice. It needs to work for you. :smile:
Windows 10 has the advantage that it comes on every platform from Microsoft and that makes it the biggest platform for apps that there is. This is for developers a reason to develop apps because they can reach more people than on any other platform out there without making different apps for each platform.
I want to now if they will announce wp 10 to on January 21 and tell when it comes to the current devices.
Windows 10 is also one of the reasons why my next game console will be the xbox one.
Didn't realize Win10 was going to form the Windows collective. Interesting. I'm running the Tech Preview of Win 10 right now, and so far I like it. Seems like a thoughtful blend of Win8 and Win7 visually (i.e. the Start Menu is there). Don't know if it supports touch screen, but I suspect it does (my laptop doesn't have that). And it will run in Parallels 8 for Mac, despite info out on the Internet that it doesn't. And I've installed Zune w/o problems, may also try Office 2010.
For those looking for a flagship WP device, by chance did you look at the HTC One (M8) for Windows? Or was that what you had in mind? If Win 10 fixes Word and Excel (so we can cut/copy/paste/etc), I might get one.
(Sorry about the LONG post)