Recent content by Richie Alex

After 7 years with WM, WP7, & WP8, I switched to the Galaxy S6 a few months ago and haven't looked back. There are a lot of UI things I miss about WP and the Samsung bloat is obnoxious, but I never realized how big the app gap really was, how well optimized mobile sites are for Android, or how...

True. When I worked at MS, I loved WM5 through WP8.1, but I was definitely in the minority of FTEs in my group. At first about 60% of the team had iPhones, 40% Win. When I left a couple years ago, about 40% had iPhones, 40% Android, and 20% Win for their primary phone. And worth W10M...

Hope. I think, even on the way out, there's a hope that Microsoft will hear their concern and fix things. A false hope, perhaps. But better than no hope at all.

After 7 years with WinMob 5/WP7/WP8 and excitedly buying every new flagship, I hit exactly that wall last week. There are two apps (Beem and AirWatch MDM) which my company uses that respectively don't exist and don't work on WP. Half my team users SnapChat, but we all know about that. I...