I've been reading all around and while doom is everywhere I look,, I'm seriously thinking of getting the 950XL! just not right away...
What I see now is a team whose yet again under a new leadership which is both good news and very bad news
The good news is that Joe -overexcited about tiles- Belfiore is gone, he clearly was unfit for the job and it showed every time he opened his mouth, he was so out of touch he didn't care to do market research about how people use their phones outside of the US, saying he didn't know people used Bluetooth to share files!
The bad news is that even though Panai is an amazing innovative guy who will probably save W10M later on, he doesn't believe in what he's selling and he has that look on his face that says don't buy this, this is the Surface RT in disguise (Which we know wasn't his idea BTW)
The situation then becomes like this, these phones are barely smartphones now, they have a huge app gap that is widening, they have beta features all around, and are basically going to be over shadowed by the Surface phone we all know is coming out of Panai's genius team.
So if you're going to drop premium for the best phone, don't let it be those but wait for the Surface phone
These Lumias are basically excellent cameras attached to a bad web browser you can't change and are both beta and under the threat of extension, no matter how big of a fan you are, you can't expect Microsoft to get better by allowing them to milk every last dollar you have on products they don't believe in, you're just angering yourselves that way.
Do what I'll do I'll wait for three months after their launch and see their price drop to what I think is fair for a point and shoot camera and then I'm grabbing them like candy with a more complete software and low expectations.
I truly lowered the bar for Microsoft to surprise us, also I'm a lot excited about that camera
What I see now is a team whose yet again under a new leadership which is both good news and very bad news
The good news is that Joe -overexcited about tiles- Belfiore is gone, he clearly was unfit for the job and it showed every time he opened his mouth, he was so out of touch he didn't care to do market research about how people use their phones outside of the US, saying he didn't know people used Bluetooth to share files!
The bad news is that even though Panai is an amazing innovative guy who will probably save W10M later on, he doesn't believe in what he's selling and he has that look on his face that says don't buy this, this is the Surface RT in disguise (Which we know wasn't his idea BTW)
The situation then becomes like this, these phones are barely smartphones now, they have a huge app gap that is widening, they have beta features all around, and are basically going to be over shadowed by the Surface phone we all know is coming out of Panai's genius team.
So if you're going to drop premium for the best phone, don't let it be those but wait for the Surface phone
These Lumias are basically excellent cameras attached to a bad web browser you can't change and are both beta and under the threat of extension, no matter how big of a fan you are, you can't expect Microsoft to get better by allowing them to milk every last dollar you have on products they don't believe in, you're just angering yourselves that way.
Do what I'll do I'll wait for three months after their launch and see their price drop to what I think is fair for a point and shoot camera and then I'm grabbing them like candy with a more complete software and low expectations.
I truly lowered the bar for Microsoft to surprise us, also I'm a lot excited about that camera