- Sep 16, 2011
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On Windows 8 you are expected use the Windows Phone App to sync content to WP8 devices. Why?
All the WP App does it replicate functionality that exists in other Win 8 Apps in a more limited and clunky way. Music, Videos, Photos and (eventually) Podcasts should all be managed within the Photos, Xbox Music and Xbox Video Apps. Those apps, while less functional right now than Zune was, are still much better than the WP App. Sharing and Syncing content between Xbox compatible devices should occur within these apps or as a OS setting. These apps already control sharing between cloud services, why not Windows devices connected and on the network?
WP8 supports OTA software updates which should make connecting to a PC unnecessary as well.
Tell me, what good is the Windows Phone app supposed to be? I see it's use for Windows 7 and Mac PCs that can't use Modern UI apps, but both of those platform are getting the Xbox apps and could easily get the Photos app as well.
All the WP App does it replicate functionality that exists in other Win 8 Apps in a more limited and clunky way. Music, Videos, Photos and (eventually) Podcasts should all be managed within the Photos, Xbox Music and Xbox Video Apps. Those apps, while less functional right now than Zune was, are still much better than the WP App. Sharing and Syncing content between Xbox compatible devices should occur within these apps or as a OS setting. These apps already control sharing between cloud services, why not Windows devices connected and on the network?
WP8 supports OTA software updates which should make connecting to a PC unnecessary as well.
Tell me, what good is the Windows Phone app supposed to be? I see it's use for Windows 7 and Mac PCs that can't use Modern UI apps, but both of those platform are getting the Xbox apps and could easily get the Photos app as well.