Recent content by Christopher Kendalls

I take my hat off to you. I did not have the tenacity to hold onto 8.1 that long. I would still be on 10 if it weren't for the bugs and lousy hardware support.

I keep hearing about apps in this conversation. You don't need apps for anything. Edge and Chrome are powerful enough that developers could find a way to tie into them and avoid developing apps. Apps could become so 2007 if Google and Microsoft were serious enough about advancing their own...

We've been saying this for the last three or four years now.

People do not want their PC to be a phone. Microsoft jumped the gun and tried to offer this, like a good decade before the market was ready. Maybe around 2025 or something when we have technology strong enough to make it feasible but the experimental projects that are out right now no one...

Microsoft can revive Windows Phone. Just put Microsoft enthusiasts and loyalists first. Differentiate Windows Phone from the rest. Windows Phone was never about the apps. It was about the ecosystem. Groove Music, MixMusic, Maps, the Skype integration. This is what made Windows Phone so...

That would not be a problem if Android stopped competing on Windows on price. Right now it is cheaper, and more feasible, to just get a cheap Android for Android apps, than to deal with Android apps on Windows Phone which would inevitably require more powerful hardware to do the same that...

Two things. First, Thurrot knows what he's talking about. Yes, he is a naysayer and a dream killer, but he is a realist. Much better than listening to these apologists. Second, its not like we're getting a cursor with our Win32 apps, with the screen as a trackpad. Anything we'll run will...

That's how I felt. I had access to all of these apps on Android but in reality there are only like, 100 good apps, in general, not just on any one platform. Once you find the apps you need it is all about your workflow. Apps are a distraction. There are a lot of things on Android that only...

Expensive and slow. Every other cloud is faster.

Yeah that sucks. Especially when Amazon is still offering unlimited for $59.99 a year.

Yes, it is already in effect.

Yes. Microsoft ties all of its services together. Bing is OneDrive is Groove Music is Office 365. Play with one you'll end up playing with them all. That's how they're making their money these days.

I switched to the Moto E. It is a refurbished model. 2nd generation, the 1 GB RAM model. Lollipop. I switched to get the apps I could not get on WP 8.1. I still have a Lumia 635. It is smoother. The camera is okay. Main thing I like over my Lumia is that the brightness adjusts...

Android second impressions Most of you know by now that I switched to WP 8.1 from Android Jellybean. Ironically, it was the Microsoft apps for Android Jellybean, and the press, that made me think that things might be better on WP 8.1. I stuck around for about 2 years and the fact that my 635...

Upselling. This is how they get you to purchase Groove Music Pass; 100 GB of OneDrive for one month.