People fail to realize that this isn't an official release... It's like a movie preview hence PREVIEW for developers. Microsoft keeps responding with things that will be fixed in the official.
You do realize that movie previews are the finished movie, only with an early release, right?
1.) This is ridiculous
2.)So we are know bashing and circlejerking other platforms to feel better about a an update on a phone?
First off this is a forum, of course you will SEE more bad than good, because people have problems and want solutions to their problems. Secondly, this UPDATE was not a wide release update, meaning update at your own peril. If someone updated their phones and had problems then that is in reality their own fault. As far as iOS and Android go, all updates mess up some peoples devices it just depends on whether you will actually hear about it (through forums or other outlets). Instead of bashing other platforms as it is going in this thread so far, maybe we should be spending time and energy helping those who need help around here. My $.02.
You do realize that movie previews are the finished movie, only with an early release, right?
I know a lot of people have been complaining about WP 8.1 and bashing MS for releasing an update that is incomplete or buggy in their eyes. A lot of these people also mention that they wish updates would be as smooth as those for Android or iOS. Well updates for those platforms are hardly ever that smooth and often cause more problems than what the 8.1 update has caused for us.
Just take a look at iOS 7.1.1 which was released recently. There are widespread complaints in the Apple community that the update is bricking devices, wiping out data and even making the prior iOS 7 battery drain issue even worse (an issue that it was supposed to fix).
So yeah the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
Nooooooooooooooooooope, I have seen previews for movies a year before its release date.
At least iOS7 didn't trash my music app.
bad example. My rule of thumb, the longer they "preview" a movie, the worse its gonna be.
[–]joebelfioreVP, Lead Windows Phone Team[S] [score hidden] 15 minutes ago
Developer preview is NOT final.. there's client-side software fixes we're still making, when UPDATES go out to existing phones they will come with "BSP" (low-level phone firmware) updates from the OEMs... and the Services (cortana) are continuallyl getting improved. SO.. when you get an official update or buy a new phone, it'll be more polished than what you folks have now.
For all y'all that keep insisting the WP Developers preview IS the final product that will be released, this was stated by Joe Belfiore in a AMA on Reddit a few minutes ago: