fatclue_98
Retired Moderator
So it's ok for other companies to drop support after 18 months but if MS doesn't continue to support a product launched shortly after 9/11, it's corporate greed. Sorry, but your argument doesn't hold water.
So it's ok for other companies to drop support after 18 months but if MS doesn't continue to support a product launched shortly after 9/11, it's corporate greed. Sorry, but your argument doesn't hold water.
Of course it affects me. I'm not rich, I can't buy the latest and greatest on a whim. But I also realize that companies need to make paper. There is no unalienable right to a computer so there's a price to pay for being connected.
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Yes I agree totally with that, but it's the lines that are drawn in the wrong place. If few people still use it then tough, but when hundreds of millions of people are still using a product they bought in good faith then that is enough reason alone to continue supporting it. I'm not rich either but we can probably both afford the latest stuff from time to time, but not everybody can especially just after a recession.
With that mentality the railroad industry would probably still be using steam locomotives.
And FWIW, support for XP from Microsoft is still available. It just costs a lot.
Yes I agree totally with that, but it's the lines that are drawn in the wrong place. If few people still use it then tough, but when hundreds of millions of people are still using a product they bought in good faith then that is enough reason alone to continue supporting it. I'm not rich either but we can probably both afford the latest stuff from time to time, but not everybody can especially just after a recession.
Think about why consumers are not considering Windows Phone to begin with. They go into a carrier store(AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Orange, etc..) and see a Windows Phone display with a blown-up representation of the Start Screen. They immediately see a bunch of flat, square/rectangular tiles where it all just blends together in a mass of confusion and wasted space. In Windows Phone, the default is the square tile, so the first view you'll have is about 6-8 tiles visible at a time whereas in iPhone you'll see 20 icons and in Android perhaps even more at a time in their "app drawers". Remember this is a small display to begin with, so real-estate is prized. MS wasted it from the beginning with Live Tiles. Yeah you can say they helped to alleviate it with the smaller tiles, but that makes things even worse because small tiles are not live, and are even less discernible as to what they are. I think the Live Tiles are a huge UX failure for 95% of the people and it's reflected in market share.
I take it you're ok then with Skype dropping support for Symbian and WP7 because "few people use it". Facebook broke their API and as a result left webOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile users twisting in the wind. When MS didn't adopt CalDAV and BBOS 7 users had to seek Funambol or other remedies to sync their calendars that was ok too. I'm guessing none of these situations affected you.
"When my neighbor loses his job, it's a recession. When I lose my job, it's a depression."
Like Engadget's review of Lumia 630.
Nokia Lumia 630 review: An affordable phone you can live without
Sorry for repetition I know this has been discussed in some of the threads before.
I see the small icons equal to grid icons seen on android and IOS...the biggest complaint ppl tell me about WP is its too overwhelming (too much happening on start screen).
Oh God, I've never read that review. They absolutely tore that phone apart. Is the battery life really that bad on it?
I see the small icons equal to grid icons seen on android and IOS...the biggest complaint ppl tell me about WP is its too overwhelming (too much happening on start screen).